FBI reveals details of probe into Hillary Clinton’s private email server use

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&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>In a rare step&comma; the FBI on Friday published scores of pages about confidential interviews with Hillary Clinton and others from its recently closed investigation into the former secretary of state&&num;8217&semi;s use of a private email server&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The FBI&&num;8217&semi;s investigation concluded Mrs Clinton never sought or asked permission to use a private server or email address during her tenure as the nation&&num;8217&semi;s top diplomat&comma; which violated federal records keeping policies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton has repeatedly said her use of private email was allowed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But in July she told FBI investigators she &&num;8220&semi;did not explicitly request permission to use a private server or email address&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the FBI wrote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They said no one at the State Department raised concerns during her tenure&comma; and that Mrs Clinton said everyone with whom she exchanged emails knew she was using a private email address&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The documents also include technical details about how the server in the basement of Mrs Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s home in Chappaqua&comma; New York&comma; was set up&period; Large portions of the documents were redacted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Friday&&num;8217&semi;s release of documents involving the Democratic presidential nominee is a highly unusual step&comma; but one that reflects extraordinary public interest in the investigation into Mrs Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s server&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After a year-long investigation&comma; the FBI recommended against prosecution in July&comma; and the Justice Department then closed the case&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>FBI director James Comey said that while Mrs Clinton and her aides had been &&num;8220&semi;extremely careless&&num;8221&semi;&comma; there was no evidence they intentionally mishandled classified information&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The FBI director said the government found no direct evidence that Mrs Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s private server was hacked but said foreign government hackers were so sophisticated &&num;8211&semi; and the server would be such a high-value target &&num;8211&semi; that it was unlikely they would leave evidence of a break-in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton told the FBI she was unaware of specific details about the security&comma; software or hardware used on her server and occasionally received odd-looking emails&period; But she told agents there were never so many suspicious emails to cause concerns&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She also said she had no conversations about using a private email server to avoid her obligations under the Federal Records Act or the Freedom of Information Act&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton told investigators that she directed her aides in early 2009 to create a private email account and that it was &&num;8220&semi;a matter of convenience&&num;8221&semi; for it to be moved onto a system maintained by her husband&&num;8217&semi;s staff&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She told investigators that &&num;8220&semi;everyone at State knew she had a private email address because it was displayed to anyone with whom she exchanged emails&&num;8221&semi;&comma; according to a summary of the July 1 interviewed released on Friday by the FBI&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton said that when top staff received an email&comma; the recipient would evaluate whether the information should be forwarded to her&comma; but no one &&num;8220&semi;ever expressed a concern regarding the sensitivity of the content of these emails&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed0e8330811">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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