On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday”, chief strategist for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Joel Benenson said it is “fairly routine”, that Clinton’s former chief of staff Cheryl Mills was given immunity in the FBI’s investigation into Clinton use of a private unsecured email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
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“It’s no wonder that at least five individuals tied to the email scandal, including Clinton’s top State Department aide and lawyer Cheryl Mills, secured immunity deals from the Obama Justice Department to avoid prosecution”, Miller added, referring to news Friday of additional Clinton aides receiving protection from the Federal Bureau of Investigation so they could speak to authorities. The FBI then revealed the unknown person’s name was believed to be a pseudonym used by Obama.
Top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, in her interview, explained how they had to update email addresses with the White House so Clinton could email President Barack Obama because the President could only receive emails from approved addresses. In July, FBI Director James Comey said Clinton and her aides were “extremely careless” in handling sensitive government information on her private e-mail server but that prosecution wasn’t warranted.
He also “stated to Pagliano that he wouldn’t be surprised if classified information was being transmitted”.
“Wow”, the official responded, before declining to answer further questions on the exchange. The FBI indicated that as the official was being escorted to the elevator following his interview, he told an agent that “after seeing the above referenced documents, he now understood why people were concerned about this matter”.
The documents show that most of those interviewed, when shown emails containing information now deemed classified, objected to the designation or otherwise said they did not believe their exchange on unclassified systems was concerning.
Kirby, the department spokesman, said he could not “speculate” whether the Defense Department had found more than just a single conversation between Clinton and Petraeus.
Mills, who was among Clinton’s closest confidants, voluntarily appeared a year ago for a lengthy interview as part of the House GOP’s investigation into the 2012 attack on a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that left three Americans dead.
“What has become abundantly clear is that the Obama administration is protecting Hillary Clinton from accountability at all costs because she will keep the rigged system in Washington in place”.
The documents contain several previously unknown details.
“Pagliano remembers Mills replying that former Secretary of State had done the same thing, to include Colin Powell”.
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Platte River Networks is the IT firm Clinton hired after she left the State Department in 2013 to manage her email server.
