Hillary Clinton Agrees To Turn Over Email Server To FBI

FILE - In this March 23, 2015 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Washington. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s decision to step down from the board of her family’s foundation will be fo... FILE - In this March 23, 2015 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Washington. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s decision to step down from the board of her family’s foundation will be followed this week by the Clinton Foundation board meeting to consider limiting international fundraising and improving transparency. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) MORE LESS
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Hillary Clinton’s attorney has agreed to turn over the server that powered the private email account she used during her tenure as secretary of state to the FBI, The Washington Post reported late Tuesday.

A spokesman for the Democratic presidential frontrunner told the Post that Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, agreed to turn over the server in addition to a thumb drive he possesses that contains copies of the work emails Clinton already turned over to the State Department for review.

“[Clinton] directed her team to give her e-mail server that was used during her tenure as secretary to the Department of Justice, as well as a thumb drive containing copies of her e-mails already provided to the State Department,” spokesman Nick Merrill told the newspaper. “She pledged to cooperate with the government’s security inquiry, and if there are more questions, we will continue to address them.”

Merrill declined to tell the Post whether Kendall was ordered to turn over the devices and when he did so.

The FBI was reportedly looking into the security of Clinton’s so-called “homebrew” server, which was located in her Chappaqua, New York home. Officials said the FBI was not targeting Clinton herself.

There appear to be no emails from Clinton’s time at the State Department left on that server, either. Kendall wrote in a letter to a congressional oversight committee that “there are no hdr22@clintonemail.com emails from Secretary of State Clinton’s tenure on the server for any review, even if such a review were appropriate or legally authorized,” according to the Post.

Separately, the Justice Department said last month that it received referrals from the inspectors general of the State Department and the intelligence community about the potential compromise of classified information in connection with Clinton’s private email account. McClatchy reported earlier Tuesday that the inspector general for the intelligence community had notified top members of Congress about two emails found on Clinton’s server that contained “top secret” material — more sensitive than was previously known.

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  1. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    (I feel the need)

    THIS

    IS

  2. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Why does this story make Trump seem refreshing?

  3. I forget. Where exactly are we now on all of this? Hillary email-gate Benghazi stand-down order contained on Hillary’s private server because birth certificate Benghazi Shillary and Shillary Benghazi Benghazi-gate death panel OMG IT’S THE SMOKING GUN!!! I SWEAR THIS TIME???

    Something like that?

  4. I’d say it’s because Trump’s antics are at least entertaining, whereas–legitimate or not–there always seems to be some “scandal” surrounding Hillary and/or Bill Clinton.

  5. Avatar for chammy chammy says:

    I am glad she is doing it but why didn’t she do it earlier on to avoid all the shit in between which dragged her reputation down. This was handled badly., I sure wish she would hire Obama’s campaign staff.

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