Hillary Clinton told FBI investigators no one at the State Department raised concerns with her about using private email servers to conduct government business during her time as secretary of state.
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A day earlier Judicial Watch released 510 pages of new State Department documents, including a 2009 request by Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band for diplomatic passports for himself and an associate.
When FBI Director James Comey in July announced he didn’t have enough evidence to make negligence charges stick against Clinton, the media assumed that meant she was cleared of any guilt.
Kaine here inexplicably clinging to the party line established by Clinton at a United Nations press conference in March 2015 after the email scandal broke – even though the newly released Federal Bureau of Investigation documents specifically refute this claim. That particular email had been marked as “confidential”, the lowest level of classification. Opinion polls show that voter concerns about Clinton’s honesty and trustworthiness are among her biggest vulnerabilities.
It said eight of the devices were BlackBerries that she used while secretary of state, and the other five were devices, including BlackBerries, that she used after leaving office. The FBI investigation notes indicate Clinton had multiple mobile devices, rather than the one she initially said she used and suggest those working for her took extra measures to permanently delete emails, which sources familiar with the case previously said she didn’t.
“She either knew or should’ve known that she was placing classified information in a way that exposed it to being hacked and being made available in the public domain, even to enemies of this country”, said Pence, the in governor.
Ziem, who told the Washington Examiner that it was “probable” the reason Bleachbit was used by Clinton’s staff was to permanently eliminate information, also spoke out in response to a claim made by a CNN journalist who said that it seemed unlikely that Clinton would use a free, widely available program to erase data.
“They went to all this trouble to say she had staged what was a awful concussion that required six months of very serious work to get over”, he said.
For its part, the Clinton campaign said it was “pleased” by the release of the Federal Bureau of Investigation report on Friday.
The FBI released the summary to provide context on its recommendation that the Justice Department shouldn’t prosecute Mrs Clinton or her aides for using the private system.
Kaine flatly disagreed with the notion, however, saying he’d “sat with her while she has answered questions” on the email controversy, and pivoted to attacking GOP nominee Donald Trump for failing to release his tax returns―to Kaine, a worse breach of transparency and trust than anything Clinton’s done.
Clinton had suffered a concussion the previous December, and just five days after these emails, completed her tenure as Secretary of State.
Breitbart News reported last September on an email that Abedin sent to Clinton after Clinton’s private email account crashed.
Knowing that the investigation was drawing to a close, and quite possibly knowing via Loretta Lynch or other sources that she was going to skate, Clinton’s approach during the interview was mainly to say that she could not recall important details or specific emails she was questioned about.
Clinton received a routine message from a State Department computer staffer who clearly didn’t know that [email protected] was the Secretary’s email address The message had told Clinton that some of the HDR22 messages were being flagged with “fatal errors”.
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But Bill Clinton’s timeline appears to differ from official comments from the State Department at the time.
