Hillary Rodham Clinton will turn over the personal email server she used while serving as secretary of state to the Justice Department, her campaign spokesman said Tuesday.
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“She pledged to cooperate with the government’s security inquiry, and if there are more questions, we will continue to address them”, Merrill said in a statement.
The House Committee investigating the fatal attacks in Benghazi, Libya in 2012 subpoenaed had Clinton’s emails in March while asking that Clinton voluntarily turn over her personal email server to a “neutral, detached and independent” third party.
Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, gave the emails to the FBI after they determined that he could no longer remain in possession of the classified information, despite that the State Department had previously stated that this was permissible, a U.S. official told Fox News.
Smith noted that the movement behind Vermont Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa said two emails that traversed Clinton’s personal system were deemed “Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information” a rating that is among the government’s highest classifications. “This means giving both inspectors general access and custody of all emails that haven’t already been deleted”, Grassley said. GOP officials and candidates have said the newest revelations point to Clinton malfeasance as secretary of state.
The next batch, on August. 31, will come two days after Clinton and her primary challengers are scheduled to address members of the Democratic National Committee in Minneapolis.
Clinton has previously said that she regrets using a private email account for business while but only did so she did so only as a matter of “convenience.” The Justice Department has been criticized by defense lawyers and secrecy experts alike for an approach they say is inconsistent. The Justice Department routinely checks into whether classified information has been mishandled.
The inspector general for the intelligence community had told Congress that potentially hundreds of classified emails are among the cache that Clinton provided to the State Department.
Republicans have accused Clinton of hiding something. A self-described “democratic socialist”, Sanders has avoided addressing Clinton’s email saga, keeping focused on policy disagreements over the economy, trade and the Keystone XL pipeline.
“She knows she did something wrong and has run out of ways to cover it up”, he said.
There is no evidence to suggest that she used encryption to shield the emails from foreign intelligence services, Fox News reported.
Clinton will appear before the House committee October. 22.
However on Tuesday, the state department said it would not be releasing a portion of the emails because some of the messages were retroactively determined to be “top secret”.
Clinton said the unusual arrangement broke no rules that were in force at the time, although the arrangement has caused long delays in providing federal records to lawmakers and the public to which they are entitled, critics say. She turned over the other half to the State Department last December.
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The Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation both declined to comment.
