There is no evidence Obama knew that Clinton was using a private email server at the time.
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Over the course of the investigation, the FBI conducted interviews with members of Clinton’s staff and also former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Central Intelligence Agency acting director Mike Morell, among others.
Mills, who was among Clinton’s closest confidants, voluntarily appeared previous year 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. She was informed that the name used was a pseudonym for the President, to which she explained, “How is this not classified?”.
PRESIDENT Obama used an undisclosed pseudonym to communicate with then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her private email server – shocking her top aide Huma Abedin when she learned of it.
“The fact an IT staffer maintaining Clinton’s secret server called a new retention policy created to delete emails after 60 days a “Hillary coverup operation” suggests there was a concerted effort to systematically destroy potentially incriminating information”, said Jason Miller, senior communications advisor for the Trump campaign, in a press release. They narrow their scope of their investigation to the issue at hand.
Some are even speculating that Obama was instructing the Federal Bureau of Investigation on how to deal with this controversy by pushing them to give immunity to everyone who spoke out.
According to the notes, the engineer who deleted an archive of Clinton’s old emails using a software known as BleachBit told investigators that he did so “of his own accord based on his normal practices as an engineer”.
“[She] met on the tarmac for half an hour to discuss golf and grandkids with a potential witness, to say nothing about the spouse of a potential target, a potential witness in an investigation, she recuses herself?” said Gowdy.
The documents, released on Friday and cited by ABC News, show that when Clinton was on a trip to Russian Federation while serving as U.S. secretary of state, her aide brought a classified briefing book into the hotel suite. Now, we know that the Obama White House knew full well about the server’s existence due to the change in her primary email.
In a statement, the campaign of the Republican presidential nominee criticized both Clinton and the Justice Department.
A federal judge also ordered the State Department to finish preparing roughly 1,000 pages of Clinton’s emails for release by November 4, a more protracted timetable.
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“No one with judgment this bad should be allowed to serve as president of the United States or hold any public office”, Trump spokesman Jason Miller.
