The FBI has released almost 200 pages of documents in Hillary Clinton’s ongoing email investigation.
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In March 2013, The Smoking Gun website posted an article describing Clinton’s private email scheme, but it was not until The New York Times reported March 2, 2015 a full description of how Clinton used not only a private email address, but also a private server, and used this setup for all of her official electronic correspondence when she led State.
A top aide to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dismissed concerns a State Department IT specialist brought to her about Clinton’s private email server, according to newly released interview summaries from an FBI investigation.
She noted that Mrs. Clinton aides spoke with White House personnel when she changed her e-Mail address because she wanted to be able to stay in touch with Mr. Obama via e-Mail.
In a separate conversation, Pagliano’s IT colleague, whose identity is redacted in the documents, said that “he wouldn’t be surprised if classified information was being transmitted”.
Clinton “could not use a computer”, according to notes from the Abedin interview. She also said she did not recall any conversations with the unknown State Department IT expert about the issue.
She was asked about a particular e-Mail from an address that “is believed to be a pseudonym used by the President”.
One upgrade was necessary after Clinton spilled coffee on a phone and another when one of the devices began to “slowly fail over time”. Almost 200 pages worth of notes included interviews conducted with Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan, and Huma Abedin. The emails were sent by employees at Platte River Networks, a firm hired to help manage Clinton’s server.
Agents also interviewed “Guccifer”, the hacker who detailed his successful infiltration of close Clinton friend Sidney Blumenthal’s email account and reviewed 30,000 emails and downloaded 25 attachments.
Clinton has maintained that she did not knowingly handle any classified information while she used a private email server.
For her part, Mills told the FBI that she “may have” discussed federal records retention rules with Pagliano, “but was not sure”.
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Democrats on the committee said the immunity agreements were limited in scope and did not cover statements made to investigators or to potential testimony before Congress.
