The FBI said it was later able to find some of the e-mails, but it did not say how many had been deleted or whether they were included in the 60,000 e-mails that Clinton said she had sent and received as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
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Clinton and her longtime aide and lawyer, Cheryl Mills, told FBI investigators they had no knowledge of the technology company’s deletions. Sources told CNN that during a recent routine trip to a field office, Comey encountered former agents critical of the FBI’s decision not to recommend charges against Clinton, and Comey gave a similar response.
Chaffetz and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., for example, earlier asked the US attorney in D.C. whether Clinton committed perjury when she testified before a congressional committee about her use of a private email server.
Despite not facing any legal ramifications for her use of a private server, the disclosure of this interview would be very unflattering for Clinton’s campaign.
Shah added, “The only thing Hillary Clinton took seriously was dodging investigators and avoiding prosecution”.
The FBI release does not actually change the larger contours of the Clinton email saga: She improperly used a private email server to communicate while serving as secretary of state, and despite her claims to the contrary, classified information related to national security was transmitted via that system. Chaffetz demanded more information about the 2015 deletion and the firm’s contacts with Clinton’s lawyers.
Ryan accused Clinton of having “real trust issues, real credibility issues”, saying that the Democratic presidential nominee “is the last person” he would like to see become the United States next president.
The board did not side with Clinton on the issue, and said, “Ms. Clinton is hardly blameless”.
A spokesman for Platte River declined to address the FBI’s report specifically but said in a statement “Platte River Networks did not, at any time, treat the server belonging to the Clintons differently than we did any other client”.
The notes also show the G-men never did grill Mrs. Clinton on her “intent” in setting up her server. Powell had previously denied that his conduct inspired Clinton’s email use, telling a reporter for PEOPLE outside an event in New York City last month, “Her people have been trying to pin it on me”. The report included notes from the investigation, as well as a summary of its three-hour interview with the Democratic presidential nominee at FBI headquarters.
In the course of the investigation, the FBI has found numerous sections and entire pages of gaps on the acquired data.
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