Meanwhile, Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and two other staff members were granted immunity deals in exchange for their cooperation in the now-closed FBI investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state, according to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah).
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One upgrade was necessary after Clinton spilled coffee on a phone and another when one of the devices began to “slowly fail over time”.
Over the course of the investigation, the FBI conducted interviews with members of Clinton’s staff and also former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Central Intelligence Agency acting director Mike Morell, among others.
In the interviews released Friday, an aide recalled helping Clinton replace BlackBerry devices at least three or four times. All of those devices, the report said, could not be located for analysis. In fact, the documents released today show that during a trip to Russian Federation while secretary of state, one of Clinton’s aides brought a pouch with Clinton’s classified briefing book into the hotel suite they were sharing.
The FBI released another cache of Hillary Clinton documents late Friday afternoon – the summaries of interviews conducted in the course of its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
One unidentified aide, who was responsible for channeling a range of information to Clinton, from benign ceremonial notifications to “top secret intelligence briefings, ” was “unaware” that Clinton was working off a personal server.
The roughly 15,000 emails were discovered as part of the FBI investigation into whether Mrs. Clinton or her aides mishandled classified information while serving in government.
“At some point, the determination (by State’s Office of Legal Counsel) was made that the emails would not be considered official State records, ” the official told agents. Officials originally said the disc contained 30 emails on Benghazi, but let everyone down when they only found one. The official said she did not believe that the attorneys assigned to prepare the congressional response had the “appropriate training”.
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Judicial Watch has led the charge against Hillary and her private email server. While reporting on a drone strike after the fact wouldn’t make the strike “less sensitive”, the email’s sender may not have viewed it that way, Sullivan told Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, according to their summary. Similarly, when asked about an email sent discussing a classified drone strike, Sullivan surmised the sender “may have sent this email on an unclassified system because the drone strike could have already hit the news wire”.
