But questions have nagged Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, about whether all correspondence related to official business had been disclosed.
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Thumb drives containing copies of emails Hillary Clinton sent and received while serving as US secretary of state are now in the possession of the FBI, media reports say.
The decision advances the Capitol Hill investigation into her use of a private email account while she served as President Barack Obama’s top diplomat. In March, she said the server contained “personal communications from my husband and me”.
Clinton has acknowledged that some 31,000 emails she insisted were “personal” have already been wiped off the server.
On Tuesday, U.S. federal investigators disclosed that two emails stored on Clinton’s private system contained information that had been designated “top secret” and “Sensitive Compartmented Information”, which is one of the government’s highest classification ratings, as HNGN reported.
“It’s common for information previously considered unclassified to be upgraded to classified before being publicly released”, she wrote.
Platte River Networks assumed responsibility for the controversial email network after Clinton left her State Department post in 2013. She claimed she used it out of convenience to limit the amount of electronic devices she had to carry. “She knows she did something wrong and has run out of ways to cover it up”, he said. It is unclear whether technical experts could recover any deleted emails. Her presidential campaign acknowledged the turnover Tuesday as part of what it said was an effort to cooperate with an FBI inquiry into the security of Clinton’s email setup.
While her use of a personal e-mail did not break the rules at the time, no other secretary of State has exclusively done so. And he held onto those emails for seven years before he finally made them public.
John Kirby, State Department spokesman, said the emails under review were forwarded to Clinton’s private email address in 2009 and 2011.
Also Tuesday, Republican Sen.
The Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have sought the server and the flash drive as they probe how classified information was handled in connection with the account.
Last month, the inspector general of the intelligence community raised concerns that classified information had traversed the email system and sent a counterintelligence referral to the Justice Department.
In fact, it hasn’t been established that Clinton sent or received emails containing information that was marked classified or top secret.
In total, the inter-government agency is looking at seven different emails to determine whether or not they should be classified.
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“It is no surprise that after her disastrous tenure at the State Department, Secretary Clinton continues to try to hide the evidence of her failed leadership from the American people“.
