The FBI on Friday afternoon released nearly 200 pages of summaries of interviews done during its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, including those with top aides Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan.
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The FBI released Friday almost 200 pages of notes from its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server, just three days before she squares off against Donald Trump in the first presidential debate. The release also comes hours after news that top Clinton aide Cheryl Mills had obtained a limited immunity deal from the FBI in order to cooperate with its investigation. Yet in the Clinton case, he noted, “the Federal Bureau of Investigation was handing out immunity deals like candy”.
The 296 Benghazi-related emails released by the House Select Committee on Benghazi in May 2015 served as the first test for the State Department officials who would ultimately screen all 30,000 of Clinton’s emails.
Meanwhile, Jacob Sullivan, a top Clinton aide at State, told agents that he, too, was unaware of Clinton’s use of a private email server.
In July, FBI Director James Comey recommended that no criminal charges be brought against Clinton, though he described the handling of classified information by Clinton and others as “extremely careless”. The State Department admitted in court today it pulled staff off of Clinton email Freedom of Information Act requests.
According to that report, the whistleblower said that State’s legal advisers insisted that the emails be redacted but not classified, thus ensuring that the information would be kept secret from the public while allowing the State Department to claim that Clinton did not send or receive classified information while in office. “Indeed, the Justice Department assured us that they believed my clients did nothing wrong”.
“As the case file makes clear, these aides were considered nothing more than witnesses and they cooperated in full with the Justice Department inquiry”.
Huma Abedin was shown an email chain dated June 28, 2012, with the subject “Re: Congratulations!” from a sender she did not recognize, according to the FBI’s notes. But the president was not aware of the fact that this was a personal email server and that this was the email address that she was using exclusively for all her business.
CBS News correspondent for the White House, Bill Plante asked President Obama when he had learned about Hillary Clinton’s private email server after his appearance in Selma, Alabama.
The new details, including the revelation that Pagliano had received warnings about the system, are likely to continue to fuel Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s attacks on Clinton, the Democratic nominee, for her use of the email system.
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In an interview with Hanley, which was conducted in January, it was revealed that during one of Clinton’s trips to Russia, Hanley was given a diplomatic pouch with the secretary of state’s briefing book.
