The Iowa Republican has been critical of Clinton’s handling of classified information and urged administrative sanctions.Ĭlinton has frequently lampooned the Republicans’ ongoing obsession with her email controversy (“ lock her up” is still a popular chant at Trump rallies). Grassley started investigating Clinton’s email server in 2017, when he was the chair of the Senate judiciary committee. The justice department’s inspector general said FBI specialists did not find evidence that the server had been hacked, with one forensics agent saying he felt “fairly confident that there wasn’t an intrusion”. James Comey, the then-FBI director, held a news conference that year in which he criticized Clinton as “extremely careless” in her use of the private email server as secretary of state but said the FBI would not recommend charges. Clinton was then running for president against Donald Trump, and Trump made the server a major focus of his campaign. The department began the review in 2016 after declaring 22 emails from Clinton’s private server to be “top secret”. The report concluded “that the use of a private email system to conduct official business added an increased degree of risk of compromise as a private system lacks the network monitoring and intrusion detection capabilities of state department networks”. But it was not immediately clear what that would be. For current officials, there could also be some kind of disciplinary action. The department said it found a total of 588 violations involving information then or now deemed to be classified but could not assign fault in 497 cases.įor current and former officials, culpability means the violations will be noted in their files and will be considered when they apply for or go to renew security clearances. (This is the second release from the batch of Clinton emails the FBI inexplicably found late last year. The emails also include talking points, which are redacted, for a meeting with President Obama. The investigation covered 33,000 emails that Clinton turned over for review after her use of the private email account became public. Clinton a month after the Benghazi terrorist attack referencing a Benghazi security issue. The Associated Press sent an email seeking comment to a Clinton representative.

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