As part of its investigation, the FBI has looked into the security setup for Clinton’s home server and a thumb drive that has copies of Clinton’s work emails. They have also interviewed several aides, with the Justice Department even granting immunity to the staffer who set up Clinton’s home server.
Clinton’s office disclosed on March 10, 2015, that she gave the State Department 30,490 work-related emails on Dec. 5, 2014, and “chose not to keep” 31,830 emails she deemed “personal.”
One of the mysteries that the FBI has now cleared up is when Clinton’s emails that were deemed personal were deleted and how it was done. Clinton’s office disclosed on March 10, 2015, that she gave the State Department 30,490 work-related emails on Dec. 5, 2014, and “chose not to keep” 31,830 emails she deemed “personal.”
Washington Post, July 8: Clinton’s campaign spokesman, Nick Merrill, told us in an e-mail that Clinton was not under subpoena at the time she cleared her e-mails off her personal server, and that she’d already turned over her work-related ones to State.
But Comey said their evidence points to carelessness instead of intentional violations — and given that, they do not suggest criminal charges.
"Our assessment is that, like many email users, Secretary Clinton periodically deleted emails or emails were purged from the system when devices were changed," Comey said.
FBI recommendations to prosecutors aren't usually released to the public, as Comey said, but this case has been subject to an extraordinary level of scrutiny.
On or about September 28, 2016 – FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was informed about Clinton emails found on Weiner’s laptop. “Got called up to Andy’s earlier…hundreds of thousands of emails turned over by Weiner’s atty to sdny, includes a ton of material from spouse.
July 2, 2016 – Hillary Clinton was interviewed by FBI for three-and-a-half hours.
Here are the key dates of the investigation from 2015 and 2016: July 10, 2015 – The FBI opened a criminal investigation, code-named “Midyear Exam,” into Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information while secretary of state. Late September 2015 – As then-FBI Director James Comey prepared for his first public questions about ...
October 30, 2016 – Prosecutors obtained a search warrant to begin reviewing Weiner’s laptop for emails related to the Clinton investigation. November 1, 2016 – McCabe sent emails to FBI executives and officials overseeing the Clinton email Investigation informing them that he was recusing himself from those investigations.
September 28, 2016 – Comey testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee.
June 27, 2016 – Lynch met with President Bill Clinton at an airport in Phoenix after Clinton realized the two were on separate planes on the same tarmac.
Late September 2015 – As then-FBI Director James Comey prepared for his first public questions about the case at congressional hearings and meetings with reporters, he met with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the Justice Department. Lynch asked him to refer to the investigation as a “matter,” Comey said in his book, “A Higher Loyalty.”
The FBI on Sept. 2 — the Friday before Labor Day — released an 11-page summary of its interview of Clinton and a 47-page “factual summary” of its investigation of her email use when she served as secretary of state from January 2009 to February 2013. The FBI probe focused on whether Clinton or her staff violated federal laws governing ...
Clinton repeatedly had said “everybody in the government with whom I emailed knew that I was using a personal email.” But the FBI said “e-mails from Clinton … did not display her e-mail address,” and only 13 people directly emailed her.
That was not accurate.”. It turned out that Keilar’s assumption was accurate. The 31,830 personal emails that Keilar asked about were deleted “sometime between March 25-31, 2015,” according to the FBI. That was about three weeks after Clinton received a House subpoena on March 4, 2015. As the FBI explains, Cheryl Mills, ...
One of the mysteries that the FBI has now cleared up is when Clinton’s emails that were deemed personal were deleted and how it was done.
But the FBI said her emails were deleted “between March 25-31, 2015” — three weeks after the subpoena. The campaign now says it only learned when the emails were deleted from the FBI report.
However, the employee told the FBI that “he had an ‘oh shit’ moment and sometime between March 25-31, 2015 deleted the Clinton archive mailbox from the PRN server and used BleachBit to delete the exported .PST files he had created on the server containing Clinton’s e-mails.”.
But the campaign did not disclose exactly when the personal emails were deleted — which became an issue after Clinton had received a subpoena on March 4, 2015, from the House Select Committee on Benghazi. The committee was seeking emails related to its investigation into the Sept. 11, 2012, deadly attack on the U.S. facilities in Libya.