A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has been acquitted of lying to the FBI when he pushed information meant to cast suspicions on Donald Trump and Russia in the run-up to the 2016 election Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.
"FBI steps up interviews in Clinton email probe; Questions focus on whether State officials improperly sent classified material". Politico. Retrieved November 14, 2016. ^ Tyler, Taylor (November 10, 2015).
^ "FBI recommends no charges against Hillary Clinton over emails". BBC News. July 5, 2016. Retrieved November 14, 2016. But investigators found that a number of messages that were marked classified at the time were sent from her account. ^ Herridge, Catherine; Browne, Pamela K. (June 11, 2016).
The November 2009 e-mail was sent by Wilson to Blumenthal, who passed it on to Clinton. Most of Clinton's reply to Blumenthal is redacted as classified. ^ Tom Hamburger; Rosalind S. Helderman (October 7, 2015).
On December 5, 2014, Clinton lawyers delivered 12 file boxes filled with printed paper containing more than 30,000 emails.
Clinton's initial response. Clinton addressing email controversy with the media at the UN Headquarters on March 10, 2015. Clinton's spokesman Nick Merrill defended Clinton's usage of her personal server and email accounts as being in compliance with the "letter and spirit of the rules.".
According to Comey's June 8, 2017, testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch had asked him to downplay the investigation into Clinton's emails by calling it a "matter" rather than an investigation. He said the request "confused and concerned" him. He added that Lynch's tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton also influenced his decision to publicly announce the results of the FBI probe.
On July 7, 2016, the internal State Department resumed its review of whether classified information had been mishandled. The review had been suspended until the completion of the Justice Department investigation. The United States Department of State finished its investigation in September 2019, citing 588 security violations. The review found that 38 current and former State Department officials – some of whom may be punished – were culpable of mishandling classified information, but in 497 cases the culpability could not be established. The material was considered classified then or later, but none of the violations involved information marked classified. The investigation found Clinton's use of personal email server increased the risk of compromising State Department information, but "there was no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information".
The controversy was a major point of discussion and contention during the 2016 presidential election, in which Clinton was the Democratic nominee. In May, the State Department's Office of the Inspector General released a report about the State Department's email practices, including Clinton's.
Hillary Clinton's public hearing before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. On October 22, 2015, Clinton testified before the Committee and answered members' questions for eleven hours before the Committee in a public hearing.
Hillary Clinton holding a BlackBerry phone in 2009. Prior to her appointment as Secretary of State in 2009, Clinton and her circle of friends and colleagues communicated via BlackBerry phones. State Department security personnel suggested this would pose a security risk during her tenure.