It remains unclear how numerous emails – which the Federal Bureau of Investigation found in the accounts of people with whom Clinton communicated or recovered after they were deleted from Clinton’s server – are new, rather than duplicates of emails contained in the 55,000 pages Clinton initially turned over to State in 2014, or the 343 emails made public by State that were not included in her original disclosure. “What I would say is – and we’ve said this before – is that she never had or possessed or was provided with a State Department BlackBerry”, Toner said when asked about the FBI’s report in this regard.
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Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s running mate, said Clinton deleting her emails before a congressional inquiry “looks like obstruction”, linking the incident to former President Richard Nixon, who was forced to resign from the office over the Watergate scandal.
The memo, obtained by The Associated Press, was first reported by CNN.
Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said the e-mails should not have been deleted because there were orders in place at the time from two congressional committees to preserve messages on the account. “That’s not fair to the American people, Congress or Secretary Clinton”.
Following fierce criticism of the FBI’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s private email server and the decision not to recommend criminal charges against her, Director James Comey issued a memorandum to his employees on the investigation and the agency’s “commitment to transparency”. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is under fire again as he is accused of playing a staged role during Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi hearings.
It has been revealed that 81 of Clinton’s email chains contained classified information at the time they were sent between 2009 and 2013, and 68 of them remained classified. “Their findings included debunking his latest conspiracy theories”. Chaffetz also cited a conference call with Clinton’s attorneys days before, a work ticket created the day the emails were wiped, and the use of a software program called BleachBit, designed to destroy electronic data so that it can not be recovered.
Again, none of these revelations seem likely to change the ultimate determination by the Justice Department that Clinton should not be prosecuted for mishandling classified information. “[Rep.] Trey Gowdy put out a subpoena”, he said.
Platte River Networks’ lawyer declined to comment.
The FBI recovered almost 15,000 emails as part of its recently closed investigation that it said were not among the 55,000 pages previously provided by Clinton. Comey said last July that he had no basis to find that the deletions of Clinton’s emails were aimed at concealing evidence. “The FBI resolved all of this, their report answered all the questions”.
On Wednesday, the top Democrat on the House Oversight committee released an email exchange between Clinton and former Secretary of State Colin Powell in which the Republican appointee advised her on the use of personal email.
“The email does not change the facts that have previously been made clear about the Benghazi attacks”, Toner added of the September 11, 2012, incident that killed Stevens and three other Americans.
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To fix that problem, Mills conveniently claimed that she did not know anything about Clinton’s email setup during her tenure at the State Department and only learned of relevant facts in her later capacity as Mrs. Clinton’s personal lawyer.
