This batch includes the 15,000 emails the State Department miraculously found after the FBI finished its investigation into Hillary’s private email server.
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The interview for Justin Cooper, a former senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, is also included.
In an April 5, 2016 interview with the FBI, Abedin was shown an email exchange between Clinton and Obama, but the longtime Clinton aide did not recognize the name of the sender.
Although tens of thousands of Clinton’s emails have been made public since it was revealed she had exclusively used a private email server to conduct official work, emails with the president have been exempt from disclosure.
In March 2013, The Smoking Gun website posted an article describing Clinton’s private email scheme, but it was not until The New York Times reported March 2, 2015 a full description of how Clinton used not only a private email address, but also a private server, and used this setup for all of her official electronic correspondence when she led State.
When the FBI told that to a top Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, during its investigation, she responded, “How is this not classified?”
Trump spokesman Jason Miller said the immunity agreements showed that Clinton’s email use was “without a doubt a criminal scheme”.
The email in question hasn’t been released because of “presidential communications privilege”.
“Sullivan stated everyone he worked with at (State) worked hard while under pressure and used the best judgment they could to accomplish the mission, ” according to a summary of the FBI’s interview.
Each time, confidential assistant Monica Hanley told Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in a January interview, that a new device was secured and a technical aide would “sync” it with Clinton’s server and then “talk Hanley through the process of wiping the old device”.
Morell, who has since left government service and endorsed Clinton, could not be reached for comment.
The documents contain a number of modest, some even comical revelations.
As a result Hanley received “verbal security counseling” from the DS who told her that the briefing book and document “should never have been in the suite”. Obama could only receive emails from designated accounts, and Clinton’s was one of them, Abedin said.
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Clinton’s campaign has not previously indicated she used a Gmail account, instead indicating that she used one AT&T account during her first few months in office and then exclusively used the account routed through her private server for the remainder of her tenure.
