Hillary Clinton was interviewed on Saturday at FBI headquarters in Washington, as part of the investigation into her use of a private email server while secretary of state in the Obama administration.
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Hillary Clinton gave the Federal Bureau of Investigation a voluntary interview Saturday morning about her email troubles.
Clinton tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that she has no knowledge of any timeline for the review.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus described the questioning of Clinton as unprecedented for a major party presidential candidate.
Clinton’s critics have long called for formal charges, but legal experts view criminal prosecution as exceedingly unlikely. “What she did was wrong!”. “What Bill did was stupid!” he tweeted.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) said on ABC’s This Week that former President Bill Clinton’s private meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch was “unfortunate”.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Friday that she plans to follow those recommendations.
Despite this eagerness though, Clinton made it clear she wouldn’t expand on her previous comments on the case, repeatedly refusing the opportunity to defend herself against any claims of wrongdoing. Bill Clinton nominated Lynch as USA attorney for the Eastern District of NY in 1999.
“Let me just repeat what I have repeated for many months now: I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified”, she added. But he was critical of Clinton’s use of a personal server, giving her high stature in the American government and the secretive nature of her work.
Clinton has struggled with the allegations of mishandling “classified” information. A State Department report released in May concluded that Clinton’s use of a private server was “not an appropriate method” of preserving government documents and violated government policies on email use and records retention. He said the meeting had “opened up a Pandora’s box”.
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Her use of private email for official correspondence first came to light in 2015 during Republican-led congressional investigations into her handling of a militant attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. Investigators already have interviewed numerous Clinton aides, including the key ones: Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Bryan Pagliano, the IT technician who set up Hillary’s server.
