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.
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The FBI said Platte River personnel had a conference call with Mills and David Kendall, Clinton’s longtime personal lawyer, in late March 2015.
“Clinton’s reckless conduct and dishonest attempts to avoid accountability show she can not be trusted with the presidency and its chief obligation as commander-in-chief of the USA armed forces”, he concluded.
“Classified information should be handled with utmost care because the lives of those tasked with keeping America safe are at risk”, he said. Also, the scandal raised an issue of trust in the decisions Clinton may have made at the moment and the background reasons for it, since the use of the personal email to exchange information seemed, somehow, a way to hide information from other branches of the power.
She said she never had any conversations about using the email server as a way to get around her legal obligations under FOIA or the Federal Records Act, which imposes requirements for retaining government documents.
The documents also include technical details about how the private server was set up.
The Justice Department then closed the investigation.
The transcript notes Mrs Clinton received phishing emails, including one containing a malicious link, purportedly sent from the personal account of a State Department official.
According to the report, Clinton claimed during her interview that she didn’t understand that emails marked with “C” meant that they were classified.
He told her that if it became known she had used her BlackBerry to “do business” her emails could become “official record”.
FBI Director James Comey recently said his agency could prove the presence of classified information in the e-mails but found no evidence to indicate that Clinton knew she was sending or receiving classified information – a conclusion reflected in the FBI documents released today. The FBI identified a total of 13 devices that Clinton used to send email and has only been able to find three of them. Other opponents, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, have said her handling of classified information should mean she is not given access to classified intelligence briefings typically given to major party presidential nominees.
“Clinton stated she did not know and could only speculate it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order”, the interview notes stated.
When used in documents, the capital “C” marks paragraphs that are “Confidential”, the lowest tier of classified information.
According to the report, Clinton said “she did not pay attention to the “level” of classified information and took all classified information seriously”.
In a summary of its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email use while Secretary of State, the FBI revealed that Hillary Clinton was a massive fan of BlackBerrys.
She told Federal Bureau of Investigation agents that Powell’s advice did not figure in her decision to use a personal email account rather than a government account.
“I got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data”, Powell said.
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Presented with the email by the FBI, Clinton said she intended for Sullivan to remove the State Department letterhead and provide unclassified talking points. The new referral, which aims to again involve the FBI, asked the Justice Department to “investigate and determine whether Secretary Clinton or her employees and contractors violated statutes that prohibit destruction of records, obstruction of congressional inquiries and concealment or cover up of evidence material to a congressional investigation”.
