In addition, the classification determination process administered by the US Department of State (State) in connection with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation identified approximately 2,000 additional emails now classified CONFIDENTIAL and 1 email now classified SECRET, which FBI investigation determined were transmitted and stored on at least two of Clinton’s personal server systems.
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“Shown copies of emails marked “Confidential” and ‘Top Secret/SAP, ‘ Mrs Clinton said she didn’t believe those e-mails contained classified information”.
There was indication that unknown parties tried to gain access to her email server and one case where an email account belonging to a Bill Clinton staffer may have been successfully “compromised”.
“Hillary Clinton is applying for a job that begins each day with a top secret intelligence briefing, and the notes from her Federal Bureau of Investigation interview reinforce her tremendously bad judgment and dishonesty”, Trump spokesman Jason Miller said.
The concussion was widely reported at the time, and Republicans have since used it to attack the 68-year-old candidate’s health in a way her staff have said is unfounded.
Mrs Clinton said she didn’t recall receiving any specific instruction on handling classified material.
Clinton has been dogged by questions about her use of the private email server, and her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, has used the issue to argue that she is untrustworthy.
Republicans have repeatedly attacked Clinton over the issue, helping drive opinion polls that show many U.S. voters doubt her trustworthiness.
The FBI interview reveals serious timeline gaps that still remain, with entire sections and pages redacted from the media and the public.
There have always been two legal questions regarding Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal server for all of her work e-mails during her tenure as Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013.
The FBI has now closed its investigation into her using personal email hosted on a private server as secretary of state during the first term of Barack Obama administration.
The FBI report also states a key fact that the Clinton campaign has been pushing back on, that the Clinton server had 81 emails chains that were classified at the time they were sent.
During her three-hour interview in July, Clinton stated that she chose to use her personal email out of convenience and that she relied on her adviser’s help for anything regarding information that one can send via private email. The government forbids handling such information outside secure channels.
Matthew Ellison, spokesman for the South Carolina Democratic Party, said the documents “provide further confirmation of what Hillary Clinton has been saying for over a year: her email practices were a mistake, but they were within the law”. Sources told the Daily News then that the report indicated that Clinton hadn’t obviously misled Congress in her testimony, but that her testimony showed a pattern of recklessness and lack of sophistication in regards to security measures. The documents are available to the public, and you can read the FBI’s notes on Clinton’s interview online.
The emails show Hillary forwarding classified information to Abedin’s unsecured, non-state.Gov account. She said all cables of a “certain policy nature” went out under her name. “We trust State Department employees to use their best judgment when conveying sensitive information, taking into account a range of factors”.
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“We are pleased that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has released the materials from Hillary Clinton’s interview, as we had requested”. 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.
