Re: What you may have forgotten about the Hillary Clinton email controversy

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On 13 Feb 2022, Lefty Lundquist <lefty_l...@ggmail.com> posted some
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> Hillary Clinton is a female pedophile. That is why she had her own
> email server. The FBI knew it too.

The report by the Justice Department inspector general on the FBI's and
DOJ's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation examines
decisions made during the investigation by top FBI officials, including
former director James Comey. CBS News' Paula Reid reports that the
review is expected to describe Comey as "insubordinate" while also
criticizing then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch for weak leadership.

If your memory of Hillary Clinton's email server has receded, here's a
synopsis of the email controversy that emerged during Clinton's 2016
presidential campaign and prompted questions about federal
investigators' practices during the investigation:

The private email server
The FBI's initial probe stems from Clinton's use of a personal homebrew
email server while she was secretary of state. The investigation focused
on whether Clinton sent or received classified information through a
server in the basement of her New York home, which was not authorized to
handle such messages.

Clinton said her use of the server private email address was a matter of
convenience, "because I thought it would be easier to carry just one
device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two," though
she was seen traveling with two devices anyway, a blackberry and an
iPad.

The New York Times first reported the use of the server and raised the
possibility that she had "violated federal requirements that officials'
correspondence be retained as part of the agency's record." When
questions were raised about the possibility that there were emails
containing classified information on her server, the FBI initiated an
investigation.

The FBI found that Clinton used several different servers and
administrators during her four years as secretary of state, and also
numerous mobile devices to send and receive email on her personal
domain.

The emails
Clinton turned over about half of the 60 thousand emails that were on
her server, after telling the State Department that the emails deleted
by her lawyers -- about 30,000 -- were personal, involving her
daughter's wedding plans, family vacations, yoga routines and condolence
notes.

In total, she submitted roughly 55,000 pages of emails. From the group
of approximately 30,000 emails that Clinton provided to the State
Department, the FBI found 110 emails in 52 email chains that were
"determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at
the time they were sent or received."

Did Clinton ever face charges?
No. In July 2016, Comey made the controversial decision in July 2016 to
announce that he was recommending that no charges be filed over the
investigation into Clinton's emails. "Our judgment is that no reasonable
prosecutor would bring such a case," Comey said after detailing the
FBI's findings in its investigation of Clinton's use of personal email
servers. "No charges are appropriate in this case."

Comey did, however, say Clinton and her staff were "extremely careless
in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."

Then, just days before the election, Comey announced that new emails had
surfaced in the case. Those emails came from the laptop of the estranged
husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin, former New York congressman Anthony
Weiner. The more than 1,000 emails were not all work-related and
included personal emails belonging to both Abedin and Weiner. After an
additional review of the new emails, Comey then informed Congress two
days before Election Day that the FBI had not found anything new that
would warrant charges against Clinton for her use of the private email
server.

Trump's email crusade
Mr. Trump blasted Clinton's use of the server for her State Department
email as a talking point during the end of the 2016 campaign, a habit
that has persisted throughout his presidency thus far. As a candidate,
Mr. Trump was fixated on the 30,000 personal emails that Clinton deleted
from her tenure as secretary of state, saying that Clinton should have
been prosecuted for her "illegally deleted emails."

He has also criticized Comey for his decision to not prosecute Clinton
-- "very, very unfair" and "rigged," he has said, and he claimed that
Comey had "totally protected" Clinton.

Comey's handling of the investigation was one of the initial reasons
given for Mr. Trump's decision to fire Comey in May 2017. He pointed to
reasoning by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that Comey had
bungled the conclusion of the Clinton investigation, calling it a
"textbook example of what federal prosecutors and agents are taught not
to do."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-you-may-have-forgotten-about-the-hillar
y-clinton-email-controversy/