Clinton told the FBI she “could not recall any briefing or training by State related to the retention of federal records or handling classified information”, according to the bureau’s notes of their July interview with Clinton, released on Friday.
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The FBI did not recommend that the Justice Department file charges against Clinton for her use of the private server, but Director James Comey said that Clinton was “extremely careless” in handling classified information.
That dovetails with what Clinton told “Face the Nation” in an interview that aired on January 10, when she suggested she relied on one aide, Jake Sullivan, to determine what could and couldn’t be appropriately transmitted through her private server. “I think this record actually documents really kind of the disgraceful decision not to go after her”, Farrell said during an interview with the FOX Business Network’s The Intelligence Report.
Abedin said under oath in the Judicial Watch civil case that Hillary Clinton used a private server to prevent personal emails from being accessible to Congress and other officials, acknowledging that she knew about the rogue off-the-books server system.
It seems that Clinton’s choice in smartphones, even at a time when BlackBerry is all but irrelevant, was rather like that reality TV star and wife of famed McDonald’s fan Kanye West, Kim Kardashian. However, Comey has said the unusually high-profile case warranted more robust public disclosures than is standard.
Clinton has claimed it was public knowledge to many State Department employees that she was using a private server because they received emails from her email domain.
Clinton’s correspondence with confidante Sidney Blumenthal has drawn particular scrutiny. The release provided another vivid example of how the email scandal will likely continue to dog the Clinton campaign until Election Day and beyond.
Some of the devices were destroyed by her aides and some remain unaccounted for, said the report.
The portrait that emerges from 58 pages of Federal Bureau of Investigation documents that were released Friday is one of secrecy, in which aides and advisers sought to prevent unfettered access to the correspondence Clinton had during her four years as the nation’s chief diplomat.
What could we expect from Hillary Clinton as United States president? He is the most meticulous, careful person you could possibly do business with. Clinton hid the existence of her private server from her own State Department IT Help Desk.
The report goes into great detail about how and when Clinton established the server system at her home in NY, and how it was maintained.
“The Trump campaign will draw a very powerful picture of a secretary of state who failed at every turn for her audition for the presidency”, Appell said.
The concussion was widely reported then, and Republicans have since used it to attack the 68-year-old candidate’s health in a way her staff have said is unfounded.
The report indicates the FBI investigation found 13 total mobile devices associated with her two known phone numbers that were potentially used to send emails using her clintonemail.com email addresses.
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Clinton defended discussion of the Obama administration’s controversial drone program in emails on her server, saying she felt conversation was “part of the routine deliberation process” and “did not give her cause for concern” regarding classification.
