Just as we predicted on a sleepy Friday afternoon ahead of a long weekend, The FBI has released a detailed report on its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, as well as a summary of her interview with agents, providing, what The Washington Post says is the most thorough look yet at the probe that has dogged the campaign of the Democratic presidential nominee.
Today the FBI is releasing a summary of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s July 2, 2016 interview with the FBI concerning allegations that classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on a personal e-mail server she used during her tenure.
We also are releasing a factual summary of the FBI’s investigation into this matter. We are making these materials available to the public in the interest of transparency and in response to numerous Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
Appropriate redactions have been made for classified information or other material exempt from disclosure under FOIA. Additional information related to this investigation that the FBI releases in the future will be placed on The Vault, the FBI’s electronic FOIA library.
As The Washington Post adds, the documents released total 58 pages, though large portions and sometimes entire pages are redacted.
FBI Director James B. Comey announced in July that his agency would not recommend criminal charges against Clinton for her use of a private email server. Comey said that Clinton and her staffers were “extremely careless” in how they treated classified information, but investigators did not find they intended to mishandle such material. Nor did investigators uncover exacerbating factors — like efforts to obstruct justice — that often lead to charges in similar cases, Comey said.
The FBI turned over to several Congressional committees documents related to the probe and required they only be viewed by those with appropriate security clearances, even though not all of the material was classified, legislators and their staffers have said.
Those documents included an investigative report and summaries of interviews with more than a dozen senior Clinton staffers, other State Department officials, former secretary of state Colin Powell and at least one other person. The documents released Friday appear to be but a fraction of those.
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Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon has said turning over the documents was “an extraordinarily rare step that was sought solely by Republicans for the purposes of further second-guessing the career professionals at the FBI.”
But he has said if the material were going to be shared outside the Justice Department, “they should be released widely so that the public can see them for themselves, rather than allow Republicans to mischaracterize them through selective, partisan leaks.”
Though Fallon seems to have gotten his wish, the public release of the documents will undoubtedly draw more attention to a topic that seems to have fueled negative perceptions of Clinton. A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll found 41 percent of Americans had a favorable impression of Clinton, while 56 percent had an unfavorable one.
Key Excerpts…
- *CLINTON DENIED USING PRIVATE EMAIL TO AVOID FEDERAL RECORDS ACT
- *CLINTON KNEW SHE HAD DUTY TO PRESERVE FEDERAL RECORDS: FBI
- *COLIN POWELL WARNED CLINTON PRIVATE E-MAILS COULD BE PUBLIC:FBI
- *FBI SAYS CLINTON LAWYERS UNABLE TO LOCATE ANY OF 13 DEVICES
- *AT LEAST 100 STATE DEPT. WORKERS HAD CLINTON’S E-MAIL ADDRESS
- CLINTON SAID SHE NEVER DELETED, NOR INSTRUCTED ANYONE TO DELETE, HER EMAIL TO AVOID COMPLYING WITH FEDERAL RECORDS LAWS OR FBI OR STATE REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
- CLINTON AIDES SAID SHE FREQUENTLY REPLACED HER BLACKBERRY PHONE AND THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE OLD DEVICE WOULD “FREQUENTLY BECOME UNKOWN”
- CLINTON CONTACTED POWELL IN JANUARY 2009 TO INQUIRE ABOUT HIS USE OF A BLACKBERRY WHILE IN OFFICE;POWELL ADVISED CLINTON TO ‘BE VERY CAREFUL
Uh-oh, BFH vs MJA in twin posts!
I know. I deleted mine. LOL
I think ZH sent him an email earlier. It’s a conspiracy against me!!! 😀
President Trump is going to clean house.
Comey is dirtier than the vacuum bag I just threw away and I hope to see that rat fink panhandling next year.
“*FBI SAYS CLINTON LAWYERS UNABLE TO LOCATE ANY OF 13 DEVICES.”
As the head of the FBI I would have said, ” You have 1 week to locate them. Get crackin’!”
Then I would hire extra security.
I’m mean, not crazy.
The FBI are fools enough to think Americans haven’t deduced Hillary’s intent and blatant law breaking of numerous National Security Laws and record retention act.
FBI, the professional, non-partisan and equal justice for all Agency. What a bunch of political hacks !
At this point, What Difference can it NOT make? Cankles is guilty, no matter what the “Federales” say. I use that term because our DC crowd (the Government) are becoming third world banana class hacks. Gone is any modicum of truth, or any shred of respect. DC has been turned into the three Stooges on crack, ad infinitum. The French king Louie XVI was overthrown for less. Judgment Day is coming.
And State Department WILL release
Hillary’s calendars BEFORE the election…
http://eaglerising.com/36432/breaking-the-state-dept-to-release-all-hillarys-calendars-before-election/
CRASH AND BURN, YOU FILTHY WITCH.
I got this really great idea..
Let’s elect the first vagina who can’t be bothered keeping track of her own phone!
Unless there is an indictment don’t waste my time or blood pressure.
ALAN COLMES, THE TALKING HEAD THAT BELONGS ON THE BODY OF A TURTLE, SAYS “WITCH HUNT”!!!
GOOD CHOICE OF WORDS, ALAN!!!
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5110214977001/colmes-slams-the-political-witch-hunt-against-clinton/?#sp=show-clips
Well, they hanged Saddam…
One would like to think this is how she goes down before the election but we all know it won’t make a damn bit of difference.
I am starting to believe no one hacked the wicked witch’s computers or servers. They just found many of her “LOST” devices and read what was there in plain sight. Carelessness, the new term for Traitor. Anyone can lose something, but repeatedly …NO. Maybe the bitch was paid to lose them. Time for a special prosecuter is now.
Between the IRS and FBI I have to wonder out loud, why the f..k should ANY of us be paying taxes?!
Al Sharpton doesn’t pay his taxes and he gets numerous Whitehouse invitations.
Maybe if we all stop paying taxes Obama will have a star studded gala for us before he leaves office.
I pretty much don’t care what gets released, redacted or any other effluvium related to that woman.
If having the Director of the FBI stand up in front of the national spotlight and NOT call for her immediate arrest didn’t cause riots, it’s a given we acknowledge some people are above our laws.
Our government has spoken with a resounding clarion tolling of the bells.
We rule, you are peasants. Your input is not only undesired, we find it repugnant. Fuck off.
Alan Colmes.Now there’s a turd I haven’t seen in years. I always felt he should be beaten over the head with a coal shovel. He’s still around, huh?
Yes, Tom, still around, a.k.a. “Skeletor.”