The FBI on Friday released almost 200 pages of summaries of interviews with Hillary Clinton aides, State Department officials and other witnesses from the agency’s investigation into the former secretary of state’s use of a private email server.
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Over the course of the investigation, the FBI conducted interviews with members of Clinton’s staff and also former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Central Intelligence Agency acting director Mike Morell, among others.
“Sullivan stated everyone he worked with at (State) worked hard while under pressure and used the best judgment they could to accomplish the mission, ” according to a summary of the FBI’s interview. You provide cover for Hillary Clinton. and her trusted aides for an investigation that you know is going nowhere. But Kennedy, in his own interview, denied the charge.
The new Federal Bureau of Investigation documents also reveal that Clinton occasionally exchanged messages with President Barack Obama, who used a pseudonymous email address.
Clinton’s Republican presidential rival, Donald Trump has cited the email server issue to label Clinton as untrustworthy.
The panel has called several administration officials to testify about the investigation into Clinton’s email use since this summer. She did most of her work on the unclassified computer and would go “days or weeks without logging into the classified system”.
The undisclosed Obama pseudonym shocked Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, when she heard about it from FBI investigators. No one under Clinton is going to be held responsible for the illegal deletions of emails or the mishandling of classified data, so how can you hold Clinton exclusively responsible?
Guccifer also talked of taking a screenshot of one Blumenthal exchange regarding the Benghazi attacks.
The documents include communications from IT employees who referred to an effort to delete Clinton’s emails as “Hilary coverup operation”, according to the Washington Examiner.
Pagliano and Mills both received some form of immunity from the Department of Justice for their participation in the probe.
The latest revelations in the Clinton email scandal are certain to play a central role in Trump’s line of attack Monday, when the two meet for their first presidential debate in NY.
The FBI has chose to drop additional notes from Hillary Clinton’s FBI interview today, on a Friday (just like last time). But on the trail, her campaign and supporters have routinely said she did not break any laws with her email handling.
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Republicans have been pressuring the FBI to make public more material from the investigation, which ended in July with a finding by FBI Director James B. Comey that Clinton should not be charged with a crime though she had been “extremely careless” with classified information.
