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HILLARY CLINTON’S INTERVIEW with the FBI may signal that the Justice Department is nearing the end of its year-long probe of her use of a private email server while secretary of state.
It’s been a controversy that has hung over her White House bid.
“I’ve been eager to do it, and I was pleased to have the opportunity to assist the department in bringing its review to a conclusion,” Clinton said in describing the FBI session to NBC’s Meet the Press for an interview to air today. She agreed that the tone of meeting with investigators had been civil and business-like.
Clinton said she had no knowledge of any timeline for the review and would not comment on whether she was given an indication that charges would not be filed.
FBI headquarters
The presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party gave a voluntary interview for three and a half hours on Saturday at FBI headquarters in Washington, her campaign announced.
Spokespeople for the FBI and the Justice Department declined to comment.
The interview, which had been expected to take place before the Democratic National Convention on July 25, did not suggest that Clinton or anyone else is likely to face prosecution.
If the former senator and secretary of state and her aides are exonerated, it might help brush aside a major distraction that has made many voters question her trustworthiness.
Fitness for office
Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, has repeatedly said the email issue undermines Clinton’s fitness for office and suggested she will receive leniency from a Democratic administration.
Following reports of Clinton’s FBI interview, Trump tweeted: “It is impossible for the FBI not to recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton. What she did was wrong!”
What’s the scandal?
While she was Obama’s secretary of state, Clinton exclusively used a private email server for her government and personal emails, rather than the State Department’s email system.
The Associated Press revealed the existence of the server in March 2015.
Clinton has said relying on a private server was a mistake but that other secretaries of state had also used a personal email address.
The FBI is investigating the potential mishandling of sensitive information. The matter was referred last summer by the inspectors general for the State Department and intelligence community following the discovery of emails that were later determined to contain classified material.
Clinton sat down with the FBI just days after her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had an impromptu meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch while at a Phoenix airport in separate planes.
That Clinton would approach Lynch while her Justice Department was investigating his wife’s actions, and that Lynch would speak to him, opened a new angle of criticism about the Clintons’ judgement and sense of entitlement.
Lynch, while maintaining on MOnday that their discussion was purely personal and didn’t touch on the email server, said on Friday she regretted meeting with the former president. Bill Clinton joined her in saying he would not do it again, either, in light of the impression it gave.
He had nominated Lynch as US attorney for the Eastern District of New York in 1999.
Asked about the ongoing investigation, Lynch said on Friday that she intended to accept the findings and recommendations of career prosecutors who have spent months on the case.
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If Trump was in a similar situation, the media would be all over him like a rash. She got off very lightly, especially with Irish media.
Trump get away with everything. He won’t release his tax returns, his university is a con to trade money for worthless degrees, he has consistently been caught lying, he made fun of a disabled reporter using his disability to mock him. The list goes on and on
Trump or Clinton, Clinton or Trump? What an awful choice to have to face as a US voter.
Peter you’re right of course. But the people posting here are oblivious to obvious distinctions as they imagine that The Donald is a comparable candidate in terms of experience or disposition to Hilary. She wouldn’t be my choice but if I have to choose I choose the sane and experienced in Government business and that ain’t the Donald for sure.
I find it strange that the article doesn’t actually go into detail about the difference between using a personal email and actually building a private email server inside your own home for personal use. The fact that she went through the trouble to actually do that shows that she really didn’t want anyone seeing those emails. Definitely points to corruption in my opinion.
Anyone remember the Whitewater controversy involving the Clintons? They got scot-free although the other folks involved didn’t. This Clinton woman is clearly not to be trusted.
The Clintons are constantly mired in scandal, here is a list of just some of them:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/12/bill-clinton-hillary-clinton-scandals-ranked-from-/
She was not ducking my sick
A case of sweeping it under the carpet so
It’s only the beginning. Ken Starr and co. have a folder full of dirt to use during the election proper. It will be popcorn at the ready for the battle with Trump.
Crooked Hillary Clinton
She recently said in a speech Trump couldn’t be trusted with “nuclear codes”. She couldn’t be trusted with state department emails. Pot. Kettle. Black.
Rigged and they will try and steal the election as well. Trump is streets ahead of crooked Hillary.
That sociopath shouldn’t be allowed run for presidency.
Sociopath he is.
She’s up to her neck in corruption.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263365/hillary-must-come-clean-about-huma-abedin-joseph-klein
Shape shifting lizard….
“It was just announced-by sources-that no charges will be brought against Crooked Hillary Clinton. Like I said, the system is totally rigged!” – ‘Don the Con’
clinton has been involved in much worse than the e-mail scandal yet this relative non-story is all the media chooses to focus on http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-02/un-official-accidentally-crushes-own-throat-right-testifying-against-hillary-clinton
there is quite the body count of people who once posed a threat to clinton.
I would not place much stock in trump and his tweets. They are playing on the same team, this is just a punch and judy show for the public.
Comes after bill Clinton had a private meeting with the attorney general, Loretta lynch aboard her private jet. Something that should not happen as she was leading the investigation. But sure your meant to believe, they only spoke about grandkids and golf. Crooked as hell.
There was already speculation about whether an agency under the Obama administration could conduct an unbiased probe, which only intensified after Clinton met with Lynch, a President Obama appointee who decides whether to bring charges in the case.
Lynch says she will accept whatever recommendations she receives from the agency’s career prosecutors and lawyers. She also acknowledged the meeting with the former president has “cast a shadow” over the investigation.
Hillary Clinton has said relying on a private server was a mistake but that other secretaries of state had also used personal email addresses.
The matter was referred for investigation last July by the inspectors general for the State Department and intelligence community following the discovery of emails that they said contained classified information.
The State Department’s inspector general, the agency’s internal watchdog, said in a blistering audit in May that Clinton and her team ignored clear warnings from State Department officials that her email setup violated federal standards and could leave sensitive material vulnerable to hackers. Clinton declined to talk to the inspector general, but the audit reported that Clinton feared “the personal being accessible” if she used a government email account.
Agents have already interviewed top Clinton aides including her former State Department chief of staff Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, a longtime aide who is currently the vice chairwoman of Clinton’s campaign.
The staffer who set up the server, Bryan Pagliano, was granted limited immunity from prosecution by the Justice Department last fall in exchange for his cooperation. The FBI as a matter of course seeks to interview individuals central to an investigation before concluding its work.
The emails were routed through a server located in the basement of Clinton’s New York home during her tenure as the nation’s top diplomat.
Yes my LITTLEONE, that’s how impartial investigations normally work. They interview everyone. Only in Lefty La La land is being interviewed a crime. It’s called gathering evidence you tool. It’s a normal part of the rule of law. I’m sorry the “facts” have gone in the way of your ideology. Thank God we live in a free society and not one based on your delusions. If we followed your views we’d still be burning witches. You’re an incredibly biased person. And oblivious to that fact as well.
LITTLEONE…Did you just lift the text of your comment from Foxinews.Com ???
at least give a link and show where you’re plagiarism comes from. Fox News !
No it’s all over the Internet. Easy to find.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-trump-tweets-image-clinton-jewish-star-40304183
She should be banged up in San Quentin.
Warmonger.
Over 4 more months of explaining Hillary! I don’t think you can stand that much heat!
Voluntary interview,lol,nothing voluntary about it,you go or you get dragged there.
At the end of the day she is a War Criminal……
Hilarious she’s still calling a review… It’s a criminal investigation!
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