The possibility that Hillary Clinton won’t face charges related to her use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state is getting media attention.
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When asked about the meeting, Mrs. Clinton said, “I learned about it in the news and it was a short, chance meeting. they did not discuss the Department of Justice’s review”.
The presumptive Democratic nominee was interviewed at the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters in Washington for more than three and a half hours, a campaign aide said.
The interview comes as Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, came under fire this week for a private meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch when they two were both at a Phoenix airport.
Speaking at a summit in Colorado on Friday, Lynch insisted that career agents and investigators with the Department of Justice are acting independently, and that their probe predates her tenure as attorney general.
An FBI grilling into Hillary Clinton’s reported use of a private email server could spell trouble for her bid to become the next USA president. Clinton declined to talk to the inspector general, but the audit reported that Clinton feared “the personal being accessible” if she used a government email account. Any finding against her could lead to problems for her as a presidential candidate. In a turn of events, it was revealed that Lynch had a meeting with former U.S. President and Clinton’s husband, Bill Clinton.
After the release of the state department audit, House speaker Paul Ryan said: “No public official is above the law”. As I discussed yesterday, if Lynch knows what that there nearly certainly will be a recommendation not to prosecute, it makes sense for her to say she will accept the recommendation.
But she continued to argue she committed no crime with the private server, and did not send any information that was classified at the time.
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She said she set up the email address for reasons of convenience, because it was easier to do everything from her Blackberry than to have several phones or tablets.
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The assaults occurred while Clinton headed the State Department. Although the meeting was not a surprise, it capped off what was already a trying week for Clinton.
