The Clinton campaign “pledged to cooperate with the government’s security inquiry” but maintains that her server was wiped clean after she turned over all 30,000 plus work-related emails to the State Department.
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Merril said in the meantime, Clinton’s team “has worked with the State Department to ensure her emails are stored in a safe and secure manner”. The news came shortly after an inspector general told a congressional panel investigating Clinton’s emails that at least five emails from the server contained classified information.
Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, turned over the emails after the FBI determined that he could not remain in possession of the classified information, an official who had been briefed on the matter told The Associated Press.
Bush was careful not to directly equate Clinton with the actions of Manning and Snowden, but he forcefully argued that he felt Clinton was being reckless with state information while she led the State Department. “They were not marked as classified”, State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday.
Consider, on the one hand, the painstaking measures that Clinton took to keep her correspondence away from the prying eyes of her employers – the public.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has hardly been smooth.
While technical details about the hardware Clinton used are unknown, Siciliano said setting up a typical private server can cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars to several thousand dollars, making it a worthwhile expense for privacy-minded individuals. All indications are that the FBI and Intelligence Community want these pieces of hardware just to make sure no more classified information exists on platforms outside its own walls, not to check what may have been on it before.
The Congressman has been attempting to get to emails and other communications on Hillary Clinton’s extralegal private email server that may contain information relating to why four American servicemen were left to die at Benghazi by the Obama administration.
The New York Times’s headline charitably portrayed the Democratic frontrunner as just trying to clear things up: “Clinton Directs Aides to Give Email and Thumb drive to the Justice Department”.
There are generally four levels of classified information: Top secret, secret, confidential and restricted.
In total, the inter-government agency is looking at seven different emails to determine whether or not they should be classified.
No, according to the Clinton campaign.
“It’s vital that you read and absorb the real story so that you know what to say the next time you hear about this around the dinner table or the water cooler”, Palmieri wrote in a bid to shoot down rising criticism about the emails.
The also say that the former secretary of state should have had sufficient knowledge about what was considered classified and what was not and should have known “to protect it appropriately”.
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Surely, Clinton never wanted to become a national security threat, let alone a subject of an FBI criminal investigation.
