Clinton’s team has also turned over a thumb drive containing emails that has already provided to the state department, according to a campaign official.
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In the midst of her declining poll numbers, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is repeating the claim that the former secretary of state never used her personal email system to send or receive classified information.
The Justice Department is investigating whether classified information was illegally stored or passed through Clinton’s private email server during her correspondences as secretary of state.
In addition to the server, the FBI also got hold of a thumb drive from Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, which had copies of work emails that were on the server. The inspector general for US intelligence agencies had reported that two of the e-mails not only were classified but were in fact categorised as “Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information”, one of the strictest security classifications, he said.
For months Clinton resisted calls to give up the personal server she used in her suburban New York City home to send and store email in a private, non-governmental account.
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.
The memo to top lawmakers on several committees responds to inquiries about a July memo from McCullough about a limited review that turned up classified information in four emails, although they did not have classification markings or “dissemination controls” at the time.
“I disagree with Hillary Clinton on many issues, and that’s what i’ll be talking about”.
At the March news conference at the United Nations, she commented that the server “will remain private…”, indicating that, at the time, she had no plan to release it. Hillary Clinton decided to hand over the server and the thumb drive to the authorities after the FBI began investigating the matter. However, the Intelligence Community believes there are other emails – perhaps “hundreds” – that contained classified information at the time they were sent, which, if proven true, could become more of a problem for the Democratic front runner.
Although she surrendered the emails, some skeptics say her email system is in a “grey area of the law”, meaning it is questionable and subject to further investigation as her decision to create her own system for “convenience” is allowing national security in the communications sector to be susceptible to hackers and foreign intelligence.
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The pledges from Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills are contained in court documents submitted by the State Department this week as a part of a public records lawsuit brought by the conservative group Judicial Watch. “Thinking that her server would be safer than the State Department’s firewalls?” he said. The statement, which carries her signature and was signed under penalty of perjury, echoed months of Clinton’s past public statements about the matter.
