According to a report on the CBS Denver website, Platte River Networks was managing her email account and server while she was U.S. Secretary of State, but instead of being a government account, it was a private one, raising questions about security and whether adequate protocols had been put in place. Meanwhile, State Department spokesman John Kirby said the Intelligence Community has recommended that portions of two of the four emails identified by the Intelligence Community’s Inspector General should be upgraded to the Top Secret level.
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And matters were not helped when Clinton appeared reluctant to hand over the server. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said two emails that traversed Clinton’s personal system were deemed “Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information” – a rating that is among the government’s highest classifications.
“We will follow the facts wherever they lead, to include former aides and associates, as appropriate”, said Douglas Welty, a spokesman for the State Department’s inspector general.
At the moment, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is rummaging through Clinton’s emails to determine if there were classified information improperly sent to her.
No doubt Hillary Clinton has bounced back from many scandals throughout her public life.
Now that the Democratic frontrunner presidential contender has asserted that she’s turned over all her e-mails, any breach would mean she’s lied in court proceedings, her long shot Republican rival and Louisiana Governor Jindal said.
For months, Republican lawmakers have demanded that Mrs Clinton relinquish the server for inspection by an independent party, which she said she was not willing to do.
The Justice Department is investigating whether classified information was illegally stored or passed through Clinton’s private email server during her correspondences as secretary of state.
She says she doubts a server kept at home can be secure, saying, “Not the way it needs to be”.
Maybe, but the Clinton campaign has indicated that it believes that’s not really what the Federal Bureau of Investigation is after. The computer was wiped clean after she turned over her work-related emails to the State Department.
The State Department has declined to give the inspector-general, Mr I. Charles McCullough III, access to the entire trove of roughly 30,000 e-mails that Mrs Clinton handed over to the department previous year. And on the other hand, she may just try to tough out negative publicity a la Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton has complied with the Justice Department requests for her server – by turning over a hunk of junk. And, her lawyer, David Kendall, said in a letter to a congressional committee seeking the server that there was “no basis” to support a third-party examination of it.
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Republicans have used the server issue to question Clinton’s truthfulness. A recent CNN/ORC poll found that 58 percent of U.S. registered voters say it is extremely important that the next president be honest and trustworthy.
