Since this article refers to both President and Mrs. Clinton, they are sometimes referred to by their first names for clarity.
Most of the information is from the FBI report. Some contextual facts and dates have been added. [hr]
The Takeaways. The Players. The Timeline.[hr]
The Takeaways
The FBI could not review all of the Hillary Clinton emails under investigation because:
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- The Clintons’ Apple personal server used for Hillary Clinton work email could not be located for the FBI to examine.
- An Apple MacBook laptop and thumb drive that contained Hillary Clinton email archives were lost, and the FBI couldn’t examine them.
- 2 BlackBerry devices provided to FBI didn’t have their SIM or SD data cards.
- 13 Hillary Clinton personal mobile devices were lost, discarded or destroyed. Therefore, the FBI couldn’t examine them.
- Various server backups were deleted over time, so the FBI couldn’t examine them.
- After State Dept. notified Hillary Clinton her records would be sought by House Benghazi Committee, copies of her email on the laptops of her attorneys Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were wiped with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn’t review them.
- After her emails were subpoenaed, Hillary Clinton’s email archive was also permanently deleted from her then-server “PRN” with BleachBit, and the FBI couldn’t review it.
- Also after the subpoena, backups of the PRN server were manually deleted.
[/unordered_list] Even though the FBI did not have a complete record of Hillary Clinton’s emails on three unclassified personal servers, it found:
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- 2,093 emails State Dept. currently classifies as Confidential or Secret. (State Dept. did not address what their classification was at the time they were sent.)
- 193 emails (81 separate email conversations) that were classified at the time they were sent, ranging from “Confidential” to “Top Secret/Special Access Program.”
- 68 of the 81 email chains remain classified today.
- 8 were Top Secret.
- 37 were Secret.
- 36 were Confidential.
- 7 were Special Access Program.
- 3 were Sensitive Compartmentalized Information.
- 36 were Not Releasing to Foreign Governments.
- 2 were Releasable Only to Five Allied Partners.
- 12 of the suspect email chains were not provided by Hillary’s attorneys. The FBI found them other ways.
- The email chains contained classified information from 5 other agencies: CIA, DOD, FBI, NGA and NSA.
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The Players (as they surface in timeline)
Justin Cooper: President Bill Clinton aide
Bryan Pagliano: Computer technician from Hillary Clinton ‘08 campaign
Huma Abedin: Hillary Clinton aide
Eric Boswell: State Dept. Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security
John Bentel: State Dept. Information Technology official who handled Hillary Clinton’s issues
Jake Sullivan: Hillary Clinton aide
Cheryl Mills: Hillary Clinton chief of staff and attorney
Raymond Maxwell: Former State Dept. Deputy Assistant Secretary
Monica Hanley: Hillary Clinton aide
Sid Blumenthal: Hillary Clinton friend and adviser
Heather Samuelson: Hillary Clinton campaign worker and attorney
David Kendall of Williams & Connolly: Hillary Clinton attorney
3 Known Clinton Private Servers: Apple, “Pagliano,” and Platte River Networks (PRN)
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The Timeline
2007: Hillary Clinton announces run for President. Bill Clinton aide Justin Cooper buys an Apple server for a new email system to be located in the Clintons’ Chappaqua, NY residence.
June 2008: Hillary drops out of Presidential race. Cooper sets up the Apple server.
Fall 2008: Hillary aide Huma Abedin contacts Hillary campaign computer tech Bryan Pagliano to build 2nd server because the Apple—in use for just a few months—is “antiquated.”
Jan. 2009: Hillary begins transitioning from her personal BlackBerry.net email to a clintonemail.com account on the “antiquated” Apple server.
Jan. 11, 2009: Increase in cyberattack attempts on State Dept. employee personal email accounts.
Jan. 21, 2009: Hillary becomes secretary of state. She declines a State Dept. email address and instead uses her personal BlackBerry in office.
Feb. 2009: Hillary travels to Asia, her first overseas trip as secretary of state.
March 2, 2009: Security memo warns Hillary and Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills that it’s risky to use their personal email and BlackBerry devices.
[quote]I cannot stress too strongly…that any unclassified BlackBerry is highly vulnerable in any setting to remotely and covertly monitoring conversations, retrieving e-mails, and exploiting calendars. –State Dept. memo from Eric Boswell of Diplomatic Security 3/2/2009.[/quote]March 11, 2009: Hillary is told there’s “intelligence concerning this vulnerability during her recent [Feb.] trip to Asia.” She acknowledges to Boswell that she “gets it.”
March 2009: State Dept. official handling Hillary computer security issues, John Bentel, reportedly receives memo showing that Hillary’s private server was set to be installed at her NY home. Bentel would later tell FBI he didn’t know Hillary was using a personal account or server.
March 18, 2009: The server installed by Pagliano replaces the Apple, but Pagliano later tells FBI he didn’t transfer Hillary’s clintonemail.com account. The FBI could never locate or examine Apple server to determine facts.
Feb. 9, 2011: State Dept. staff again raises concerns about Hillary and staff using electronic devices in their offices.
March 2, 2011: State Dept. detects malicious cyber activity aimed at senior officials.
April 2011: Hillary’s immediate staff is briefed again on cybersecurity threats.
May 2011: Hillary’s immediate staff is briefed again.
Aug. 30, 2011: Hillary requests a government device to replace her broken BlackBerry. After she’s told it would be subject to Freedom of Information Act records searches, no government device is issued.
2011: Memo from Hillary cautions State Dept. employees about security and records retention, and advises not to use personal email for government business.
Sept. 11, 2012: Islamic extremist terrorists attack Americans in Benghazi, Libya.
Nov. 2012: State Dept. Accountability Review Board convenes to investigate Benghazi. Hillary aides Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan are reportedly seen at allegedly improper Benghazi “document sorting” session in State Dept. basement.
Week of Dec. 9, 2012: Hillary faints and falls, suffering a concussion. State Dept. keeps it secret for several days.
Dec. 4, 2012: [unordered_list style=”bullet”]
- Congressional investigators try to schedule interview with Bentel, Hillary’s State Dept. information technology officer.
- He declines.
- He retires from State Dept. in December.
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Dec. 15, 2012: Hillary postpones her Congressional testimony on Benghazi due to illness.
Dec. 30, 2012: State Dept. discloses discovery of “blood clot” in Clinton’s head from the concussion.
Early 2013: Pagliano plans to seek other work. Clinton staff begins searching for vendor to manage a new, 3rd Clinton email server.
Jan. 2, 2013: Platte River Networks of Denver (PRN) wins contract for new Clinton server.
Jan. 7, 2013: Hillary returns to work.
Jan. 23, 2013: Hillary testifies to Congress on Benghazi attacks.
Feb. 1, 2013: Hillary’s last day as secretary of state. She fails to produce her federal records as required by law.
Spring 2013: [unordered_list style=”bullet”]
- Hillary aide Monica Hanley and Cooper put Hillary email archive on an Apple MacBook laptop and thumb drive.
- But Hanley later tells FBI she forgot to give laptop and thumb drive to Hillary’s staff.
- The laptop and thumb drive are lost and the FBI cannot examine.
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March 14, 2013: Hillary confidant Sid Blumenthal’s AOL email is hacked by Romanian cyber hacker “Guccifer,” uncovering a memo to Hillary with classified “confidential” information.
June 2013: According to a book later written by Bill, Hillary finally recovers from her Dec. 2012 illness about now.
June 23, 2013: Pagliano server is moved to Equinix datacenter, NJ which “serves the world’s largest financial, media, and enterprise companies.”
Read: The Definitive Hillary Email Timeline (prior to FBI report)
June 30, 2013: Pagliano server email accounts are transferred to the new PRN server.
July 18, 2013: Clintons sign formal deal with PRN for new email server.
Early 2014: Hanley says she finds Apple MacBook laptop from Spring of 2013 at her home and tries, but fails, to remotely transfer Hillary email archive to PRN server.
Feb. 2014: [unordered_list style=”bullet”]
- Hanley ships Apple MacBook laptop to unidentified person who transfers Hillary email archive to Gmail address, then to PRN server.
- Hanley instructs unidentified person to delete and/or wipe Hillary email archive from Apple MacBook and Gmail.
- Unidentified person ships Apple MacBook via US Postal Service or UPS to unidentified female Hillary associate who later tells FBI she never received it.
- Nobody can find the Apple MacBook or thumb drive containing Hillary archive email.
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May 8, 2014: House Benghazi committee is established.
Summer of 2014: State Dept. notifies Hillary aide Cheryl Mills that it will be requesting Hillary’s work emails.
July 23, 2014: Congressional Benghazi committee reaches agreement with State Dept. on production of records.
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- Mills initiates review of any Hillary work emails with .gov addresses that were transferred from Pagliano server to PRN server.
- The emails don’t include the Jan-March 2009 emails lost on the missing Apple server.
- The .gov work emails are put in a file on laptops of Mills and Hillary attorney Heather Samuelson.
- These laptop email files would later be wiped using BleachBit so they could never be recovered. The FBI was unable to review them.
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August, 2014: State Dept. provides House Benghazi Committee with eight emails to or from Clinton that show her use of a private email account.
Sept. 15, 2014: Sharyl Attkisson reports on State Dept. official who said he witnessed Benghazi document sorting session with Hillary aides in State Dept. basement in 2013.
Late Sept. 2014: [unordered_list style=”bullet”]
- Mills and Samuelson review the rest of the available Hillary emails, besides the .gov.
- These email files would later be wiped using BleachBit so they could never be recovered. The FBI was unable to review them.
- Selected emails are printed in Mills’ office and reviewed again by attorneys Samuelson, Mills and Hillary attorney David Kendall of Williams & Connolly.
- “Non-work” emails are shredded.
- “Work” emails were printed and provided on USB drive to Kendall.
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Dec. 2014: Hillary and Abedin begin using new email accounts on the domain hrcoffice.com.
Dec. 5, 2014: Hard copies of Hillary work emails are given to State Dept.
Dec. 2014: Hillary instructs her staff she no longer needs to keep the remaining “personal” emails.
Dec. 2014 or Jan. 2015: [unordered_list style=”bullet”]
- Mills and Samuelson request unidentified person to delete the Hillary email files from their laptops.
- Software called “BleachBit” is used so it can never be recovered.
- Unknown Hillary staffer also wants Hillary email archive removed from PRN server.
- Mills asks for shortened email retention for clintonemail.com account because Hillary decides she no longer needs emails older than 60 days.
[/unordered_list] July 10, 2015: FBI begins investigation Hillary email situation after U.S. Intelligence Community Inspector General refers the case of possible improper handling of classified information.
March 2, 2015: [unordered_list style=”bullet”]
- NYT article exposes fact that Clinton used personal email account exclusively for state business.
- PRN technicians conduct work on Pagliano server at Equinix datacenter.
- Mills later tells FBI they were working on the server because she asked them to conduct an equipment inventory.
[/unordered_list]March 3, 2015: House Benghazi committee requests Hillary attorneys at Williams & Connolly to preserve and produce all documents and media related to her two clintonemail.com known addresses.
March 4, 2015: House Benghazi committee privately subpoenas all Hillary emails related to Benghazi terrorist attacks. Clinton does not disclose the subpoenas but tweets, “I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.”
March 9, 2015: Mills emails PRN and makes reference to the preservation request from Congress. A PRN technician would later tell FBI he doesn’t remember seeing it.
March 10, 2015: Clinton answers questions about her email practices for the first time. She tells reporters:[unordered_list style=”bullet”]
- It was more convenient to use the private server.
- “I wanted to use just one device for both personal and work emails instead of two.”
- Last year, she deleted nearly 31,000+ emails that were “private.”
- She will not turn over her personal email server.
- She “fully complied” with the law.
- She has turned over to the State Dept. 55,000 pages of work-related emails.
- There were 62,320 emails in her account: 30,490 were public business; 31,830 were private.
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March 25, 2015: [unordered_list style=”bullet”]
- PRN has conference call with Bill Clinton’s staff.
- PRN technician later tells FBI that, at this point, he realized he’d forgotten to shorten Hillary’s email retention (that Mills requested in Dec. 2014), so he now deletes the Clinton archive mailbox from PRN and uses BleachBit to permanently delete files holding the emails.
- FBI says one PRN technician gave three conflicting stories but acknowledged that, when he made deletions, he knew of Congress’ preservation request and knew he should not delete Hillary’s email data on PRN server.
- The FBI says somebody also manually deleted backups of the PRN server during this time frame. Clinton and Mills say they were unaware of these deletions.
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March 31, 2015: There’s a conference call among PRN, Kendall and Mills. Later, PRN would exert attorney-client privilege and refuse to comment on conversation. This means Hillary’s attorneys are representing the PRN technician, too.
May 27, 2015: In a Freedom of Information (FOI) lawsuit, the court orders State Dept. to post emails on FOI website on a monthly schedule to complete by Jan 29, 2016. (State completes Feb 29, 2016.)
July 28, 2015: Hillary revises her statement regarding classified email to say she is confident she never sent or received emails that were classified at the time. Later, the FBI would find Hillary sent or received 193 emails (81 separate email conversations) that were classified at the time they were sent, ranging from “Confidential” to “Top Secret/Special Access Program.”
July 31 2015: The federal judge in a Judicial Watch FOI suit, Emmet Sullivan, orders State Dept. to request that Mills and Abedin confirm, under penalty of perjury, that they have produced all government records in their possession, return any other government records immediately, and describe their use of Hillary’s email server to conduct government business.
Aug. 5, 2015: State Dept. sends letter to Hillary including Judge Sullivan’s order.
Aug. 6, 2015: Mills’ attorney tells Judicial Watch that it has instructed Mills to “delete any and all electronic copies [of potential federal records] in her possession” after her anticipated production of records on Aug. 10. Judicial Watch files an emergency request to block the destruction.
Aug. 11, 2015: Inspector General report to the Senate contradicts Hillary claims; some emails, says the IG, contained information that was classified at the time.
Aug. 19, 2015: Hillary’s personal lawyer tells a Senate committee that all data, including emails, was erased from her server prior to it being turned over to the FBI. Hillary tells reporters the investigation surrounding her server “has nothing to do with me.” She contradicts the Inspector General by reiterating that she never sent or received classified material.
Aug. 2015:[unordered_list style=”bullet”]
- FBI obtains Pagliano server.
- Williams & Connolly doesn’t disclose that there’s other related equipment, and that Hillary emails had been transferred to PRN server.
- PRN says, at this time, it realizes it’s accidentally backing up its Hillary server on the cloud rather than just locally as the Clintons had directed. It discontinues the cloud backups.
[/unordered_list]Aug. 27, 2015: Hillary tells an Iowa audience that using a personal email server “…clearly wasn’t the best choice..I take responsibility…” She repeats her modified statement, “I never sent nor received any e-mail that was marked classified.”
Sept. 10, 2015: Pagliano pleads the fifth before House Benghazi committee.
October, 2015: Previously withheld Hillary emails reveal she told daughter Chelsea almost immediately that terrorists were behind the Benghazi attacks, yet told the public they were prompted by a protest over a YouTube video.
Oct. 3, 2015: After learning about additional Pagliano server equipment, and that Hillary emails had been transferred to PRN server, FBI obtains equipment and PRN server.
Oct. 14, 2015: Hillary attorneys at Williams & Connolly review an iMac of Hillary’s and assure the Justice Dept. that no work emails were found on it.
Oct. 16, 2015: Williams & Connolly provides 2 Hillary Blackberry devices to FBI but forensics finds no evidence they were ever connected to her personal servers. They do not contain their SIM cards or SD secure digital cards.
Oct. 28, 2015: State Dept. sends formal request to Hillary and other former secretaries asking for their work-related emails. Hillary directs attorneys Kendall and Mills to oversee.
Jan. 7, 2016: FBI interviews Sid Blumenthal, who sent at least 24 memos currently classified “confidential” and at least one email classified as “Secret” at the time and currently to Hillary on unclassified system.
Feb. 9, 2016: Justice Dept. requests all of Hillary’s 13 mobile devices.
Feb. 22, 2016: Williams & Connolly tells DOJ it cannot locate any of the devices, so FBI was unable to examine the 13 mobile devices.
Feb 27, 2016: Jake Sullivan is interviewed by FBI. He says he’s not concerned emails with classified information that he sent to Hillary on unclassified system.
March 2016: Bentel declines to testify to Senate committee.
March 31, 2016: Guccifer is extradited from Romania to US.
April 5, 2016: FBI interviews Huma Abedin who sent at least one email classified as “confidential” to Hillary on her unclassified system.
April 9, 2016: Cheryl Mills is interviewed by FBI. She refuses to answer some questions under attorney-client privilege. She says she’s not concerned by her decision to send Hillary emails with information later deemed “classified” on her unclassified system.
May 25, 2016: [unordered_list style=”bullet”]
- State Dept. Inspector General (IG) says under Foreign Affairs Manual, employees are required to conduct day to day operations using authorized information system.
- IG says there’s “no evidence” Clinton sought approval to use her personal email account or private servers despite her obligation to do so.
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June 22, 2016: Pagliano pleads the fifth 125 times in deposition with conservative watchdog Judicial Watch.
June 27, 2016: Attorney General Loretta Lynch meets privately with President Clinton. The two say it was a purely social visit.
July 2, 2016: FBI interviews Hillary Clinton.
July 4, 2016: Hillary indicates that, as President, she would likely keep Lynch as attorney general.
July 5, 2016: FBI Director James Comey recommends no prosecution in Hillary email case.
Sharyl,
You deserve a prize for the last remaining real “reporter”. Thank you for providing this. But I was wondering why the immunity deals weren’t on this timeline. That’s the thing that is most infuriating to me. That the Justice Dept. made a deal and a requirement was that the FBI would destroy evidence from those given the deal. Why is no one doing anything about the destruction of evidence that Congress has subpoenaed?
On Sept. 11, 2012, the election was less than two months away. Terrorists assassinated Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi. The US had gone in to take out Gaddafi without a declaration of war. The president stated he didn’t need one because it wasn’t war but a “kinetic military engagement.” Now the price had been paid and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama alone were on the hook. So they lied. They said that a video was the cause and the media backed that up.
We know that before Hillary Clinton met with Barack Obama on September 11, 2012, she knew that Ansar-Al-Sharia claimed responsibility for the attack. Barack Obama claims he found out about the attack in the newspapers, like everyone else. That means that, according to him, his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, met with him on the day of the assassination, just hours after the event, and did not tell him about it. In subsequent days, he also would blame the attack on a video.
Now another election is at hand and the media are lying through their teeth, yet again, to protect Hillary Clinton. Many of the media have gone back and forth from White House employment to network employment, including Sharyl Atkisson’s former boss, who forbade her from digging into Benghazi.
We all owe a great debt of gratitude to Ms. Atkisson for continuing her work as an honest reporter. It is a tragedy that such a basic thing requires praise.
It is amazing that Obama named Hillary as “The Unsong Tech Hero”, https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/28998…I would have to give her this credit since she can make so many emails and hardware disappear in a nanosecond.
How can Hillary get away with all the wrong doings
How can Hillary get away with all the wrong doing‼️
I had complete confidence in the FBI as one department of government that could not be corrupted. I was wrong. I am surprised, however, that Comey did not resign in disgust. I thought he was better than that. I find your reporting above reproach and am grateful for your concise timeline. Thanks for all you do.
Read LICENSED TO LIE: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice for the true inside story of high profile prosecutions and how this group works now. It’s 5 stars on Amazon, reads like a legal thriller, but it names names. It’s true. No lawyer has ever written a book like this. Also see my article on the NY OBserver at Observer.com–The Countless Crimes of Hillary Clinton. It all came true. Terrifying are the depths to which we have sunk.
If Hillary ever stood trial it would go like this…
Judge: Mrs. Clinton have you ever had anyone murdered?
Hillary: Of course not.
Judge: Well did you ever accept bribes?
Hillary: There’s no evidence, you can’t prove it.
Judge: Mrs. Clinton are you aware of the penalty for perjury, evidence tampering and obstruction of justice?
Hillary: Yes I do, a hell of a lot less than murder and accepting bribes.
For the first time in my life, I feel completely helpless. There seems to be nothing we can do about any of this. No one in government or anywhere for that matter, seems to be able to get anywhere with this. The more truths and facts revealed , the harder the government and it’s entities push back. This is not the America I grew up in. This is not the Government I once felt safe with and protected by. It’s all so hopeless. Everything has changed. America is falling.
I agree. Sadly…
Sharyl, Thanks for the summary. Now I really lihe being a deplorable.
Also 22 January 2009, on her second day as Secretar – HRC signed the “Sensitive Compartmented Information Nondisclosure Agreement” indicating that she understood the classifications and the policies regarding how to handle sensitive information, and that she understood it was her responsibility to know which documents are classified and the penalties for mishandling them.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/288757472/Hillary-Clinton-s-SCI-Nondisclosure-Agreement
It’s hard to believe clear thinking person could vote Hillary into the white office. Unfortunately the true devastation (if she gets in) won’t be truly felt for years to come,as in Europe which has totally changed the way society lives . Jihadist have been been growing slow but steady, 50 or more yrs from now the effects will of this election and the Clinton machine will all but decimate society
Why is there a double standard in our country that I thought, supposedly, followed the law and put the American people first? This is so upsetting! If Hillary was the head of a school, a bank, a department store, etc, she would have been prosecuted, but for some crazy, horrible reason, she is above the law??? I’m ashamed of what other countries think of us. I know I raised my kids to be honest. Wow, power and special interests rule!! Sad for us, the millions of honest American people, we deserve better.
Did George W. Bush’s administration have a private email server?
Some years ago there was a newspaper article ( Akron Beacon Journal?) about the death of a man claimed to be Bush’s webmaster. He died when his plane crashed here in Ohio returning from a trip to Washington D.C. His sister was quoted as saying that the crash investigation was not satisfactory and that her brother’s cellphone was missing from the crash site.
If true, did or will the Clinton racketeers bring this up when cornered? Does the Donald know about this story?
If I had Sharyl’s memory or her investigative skills I could give you the dates, places, and names. Alas, at 76 yrs. things are fading.
Can’t wait til you add Paul Combetta to this mess!
She is a liar, cheat and so dishonest…Joeline Webber…if you are too blind to see that…you are as bad as her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, I’m not buying this distraction from the real issues of today. Thank God Hillary kept her stuff on a private server. At the very least her server was not successfully hacked unlike the State Department server they wanted her to use which has been repeatedly hacked. People need to talk to Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Madelaine Albright, all of whom used private servers. Enough with the email stuff. Let’s focus on the issues we need to know about for the election.
A distraction????? You’ve just been presented well documented PROOF of multiple crimes and treasonous acts committed by a presidential candidate, over the span of 30 years and you are okay with that?????
This is not ’email stuff’ as you so eloquently put it. You, ma’am, are a disgraceful and deplorable person without brain cells to rub together.
Nope. The others you mentioned did not have their own servers. This is a very important topic. She was Secretary of State and purposely avoiding FOIA requests by keeping her emails on a private server. THAT is the reason she did it – to avoid transparency to the American people. She couldn’t even determine whether emails were classified or not! (IF you believe she’s telling the truth.) She’s a disaster and doesn’t deserve to be President of this great country.
Real issues? Do you not think that Hillary pretending she didnt know what a C meant and sending and receiving top secret info is not an issue? She, as secretary of state is required to use specific channels of communication AND turn in her entire block of communications when she leaves office, neither of which she did. It is NOT her decision to decide which is best for this country in any matter that has already been decided by constitution or laws! The email issues indicate what kind of person Hillary Clinton is, what power she assumes on her own and how she uses that power. She is not an independent authority and has NO right to make decisions on her own regarding the security of this nation when it opposes standard procedure! If you think she may, then you are asking for a dictatorship, an oligarchy where the branches of our government are made irrelevant as well as our laws. Good luck with that!
They had private email ACCOUNTS, but did not use private SERVERS. There is a great difference. It goes to integrity or lack thereof.
SERVERS !!!!
Dang…..how many criminal actions did I just read??? Not a Trump fan but the nan is right…she is clearly been placed above the law.
Nice job, good information.
The 1st part is not really true as they would be able to retrieve those emails from NSA which records all emails
Perhaps Ms. Atkisson could teach the FBI and the DOJ et al how to do their jobs! Journalism and the search for truth is not completely dead, thank you. But what has happened to the rest of them?
A brilliant summary, thank you for your hard work.
My favourite part of the story: How Hillary Clinton sourced some of those 13 Blackberries from eBay, because she couldn’t use the newer models. Is it not possible that someone could have infiltrated a bugged phone into her possession, if it was known she was buying second-hand devices online? And what happened to the 11 phones she lost? Apart from the laptops and drives? How can anyone so careless be allowed anywhere near a state secret?
Thanks again. This is compulsory reading for anyone trying to find their way through the tangle of lies that is “Secretary” Clinton, worst keeper of secrets in the history of the office. The job of a good secretary is to leave a clean desk. Look at the catastrophic mess she created instead.