“Her people have been trying to pin it on me”, the retired general told People magazine Saturday night at an event in East Hampton, New York.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey concluded that “no charges are appropriate” despite “extremely careless” behaviour by Mrs Clinton and her staff.
The State Department said Monday it was reviewing almost 15,000 previously undisclosed emails recovered as part of the FBI’s now-closed investigation into the handling of sensitive information that flowed through Hillary Clinton’s private home server.
Two weeks ago Chairmen of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees sent a letter to U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia requesting an investigation into the truthfulness of Clinton’s answers to the FBI’s questions, implying she perjured herself in front of Congress during testimony past year. “The truth is, she was using [the server] for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did”.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled (PDF) on Friday that Judicial Watch may serve written interrogatories on Clinton, but the group is not entitled to take her deposition, report Bloomberg Politics, the National Law Journal (sub. req.) and the New York Times.
The latest twist in the Hillary Clinton email scandal involves former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Indeed, the State Department has determined that as many as 29 emails had information too sensitive to release in any form, even with redactions. It also reported that Clinton asked Powell in a 2009 email exchange about his use of email after she had chose to use her personal account.
Among them is a June 23, 2009, message to Abedin from Doug Band, a longtime aide to former President Bill Clinton who then was an official at the Clinton family’s charitable foundation. Republicans charge that donors to the foundation, including foreign governments and corporations, got preferential treatment from the State Department while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
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Also, while Powell did receive two emails with classified information (retroactively classified at the lowest level of classification), Clinton’s server included at least 1,600 classified emails, some at the most sensitive level of intelligence, the beyond-top-secret SAP classification. “He used a secure State [Department] computer on his desk to manage classified information”.
