As the reports were released, GOP nominee Donald Trump and other attacked Clinton connecting the emails to questions over whether the former secretary of state gave preferential treatment to donors to her family’s foundation. In 2014, she was contacted about it, and tried to transfer the email archive by way of an IT company.
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The documents included a memorandum summarizing the investigation, and goes into details about the server itself as well as devices used by Clinton as she served as Secretary of State. Powell, who also used a private email account, warned Clinton that if it became “public” that she used a smartphone to “do business”, her emails could become official government records subject to disclosure.
The FBI’s recently released documents about its investigation into Hilary Clinton’s use of a private email server, show that the hacker may have compromised emails of Bill Clinton’s staff. Clinton told investigators that she was unaware that the aide had deleted the emails.
“Clinton stated she did not know what the ‘(C)’ meant at the beginning of the paragraphs and speculated it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order”, the report said. Either she made a conscious effort to prevent a full public accounting of her tenure at State or she was nonchalant about decisions with national security consequences and risks. But Clinton said that while Blumenthal is a “prodigious” writer, she said the information he provided was “sometimes accurate and sometimes not”. “She relied on State officials to use their judgment when emailing her and could not recall anyone raising concerns with her regarding the sensitivity of the information she received at her email address”. “This is exactly why I have called for her to be denied access to classified information”. During her interview, Clinton was shown some of those emails, but typically did not recall the details.
The FBI’s notes also reveal that Hillary didn’t care about the difference between different classification levels, and may not even have understood them.
FBI Director James Comey announced in July that his agency would not recommend criminal charges against Clinton for her use of a private email server, though he said at the time that she and her staffers were “extremely careless” in how they treated classified information.
The way information – classified or otherwise – has quickly changed hands via a server that was not authorized for use by the government has become her critics’ strongest point against her bid for the White House.
Meanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Investigation file cited a 2011 notice to all State employees “sent on Clinton’s behalf” that recommended employees not conducting State business via personal email accounts “due to information security concerns”.
“We are making these materials available to the public in the interest of transparency and in response to numerous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests”, was noted by the FBI National Press Office.
An FBI policy paper explains that “the presence of recording equipment may interfere with and undermine the successful rapport-building interviewing technique which the FBI practices”.
He did not have security clearance and was not an expert in cyber security, the Washington Post reported.
In March 2015, Clinton had said she never carried more than one device and use her mobile for both work and personal emails.
The FBI indicated that the inability to obtain mobile devices, the thumb drive, and the laptop resulted in “investigative limitations” for the Bureau.
The devices would then be set up and synced to the server.
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Some of the devices were destroyed by her aides and some remain unaccounted for, said the report.
