‘The whereabouts of Clinton’s devices would frequently become unknown once she transitioned to a new device, ‘ according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “Hillary Clinton? She’s the mystery woman of 2016”. After Sullivan said he was having issues getting her the document through secure fax, Clinton suggested he turn it “into nonpaper w/no identifying heading and send nonsecure”. Her title was “Chief of Staff and Counselor”. This raised questions about the legitimacy of the communication channel: Whether using personal email to Office’s related information was appropriate or not, and the decisions Clinton may have made at the moment, without any official control.
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After taking her oath of office in 2009, Clinton asked former Secretary of State Colin Powell about communicating official matters on a BlackBerry. The agency also found “multiple occurrences” of phishing attacks against Clinton’s email account.
Said David French, National Review Online staff writer: “Americans can not believe a single word that comes out of Hillary Clinton’s mouth”. It is the first disclosure of details provided by Bryan Pagliano, the technology staffer who set up and maintained Clinton’s IT infrastructure.
“A lot of these documents were retroactively reclassified, so the classification system presented challenges as well”, Mr. Perez said on CNN’s “State of the Union”.
Her aide, Huma Abedin, made sure influential friends overseas, particularly donors such as Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain, who donated millions to the Clinton Global Initiative, had access to the secretary of state. She said she had relied on State Department officials to use their judgment when emailing her sensitive information, adding that she “could not recall anyone raising concerns with her regarding the sensitivity of the information she received at her email address”. Mills could only “refresh” her recollection because she had knowledge of those facts during her tenure as Clinton’s chief of staff, putting those facts well beyond the protection of any privilege.
Some Republicans saw the files as confirming their belief that the Department of Justice should have prosecuted Clinton.
Clinton told investigators that she understood “nonpaper” to mean a document with no official heading that can not be attributed to the US government.
She told investigators that “everyone at State knew she had a private email address because it was displayed to anyone with whom she exchanged emails”, according to a summary of the July 2 interview released Friday.
After leaving the State Department, Mrs. Clinton maintained her 13 servers and five iPads for nearly two years, none of which had been authorized or were secured against hackers.
“She did not pay attention to the level of classified information and took all classified information seriously”, said the report.
“The Department of Justice agreement to limit the scope of a criminal interview based on untested claims of attorney-client privilege is, at the very least, unusual”, Coffin writes.
During the deposition, Mills’ attorney, Beth Wilkinson, objected to a number of questions on the basis of attorney-client privilege and instructed Mills not to answer various questions.
“These documents demonstrate Hillary Clinton’s reckless and downright risky handling of classified information during her tenure as secretary of state”, Paul Ryan, the Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said in a statement. 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.
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Shannen W. Coffin, a former senior attorney in the George W. Bush Department of Justice, practices appellate and regulatory litigation in Washington, D.C.
