Hillary Clinton - Email Controversy

In March 2015 it become publicly known that during Hillary’s 4 years as president Barak Obama’s first-term secretary of state, she had exclusively used her private email server, rather than official State Department email account, for official communication. And it became controversial because there’s some legitimacy to that: Government BlackBerrys could only include one address. The main problem with this email is that from 2009 to 2013 Hillary used a private email server and this is not permitted by US government. Clinton has admitted that this was her mistake. And this email controversy brought to light against the backdrop of Clinton’s 2016 presidential election campaign.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) initiates an investigation regarding the origin and handling of classified emails on Clinton’s server. The FBI report found that some of the emails originated in 5 other intelligence agencies. The FBI found that all classified emails on Hillary’s server were drafted on “unclassified systems” and it also violating the same policies as those on Clinton’s personal server.

Hillary Clinton's claim that 'everything I did on emails was permitted'

FBI identified 110 emails as containing information that was classified at the time it was sent, 65 email was deemed as Secret and 22 deemed as Top Secret. An additional three email chains contained portion markings like “(C)” that indicating “Confidential” in front of one or more paragraphs. Clinton told the FBI she did not know the meaning of “(C).” By the State Department nearly 2,100 emails on the server were marked as classified.

In May 2016, Inspector General of the State Department’s office, released an 83-page report about the State Department’s email practices, including Clinton’s. On July 2 20q6, FBI investigation had concluded that Clinton was extremely careless in handling her email system. On July 7, the State Department reopened its probe into the email controversy. On October 28, 2016, Director of FBI notified Congress that the FBI has started looking into newly discovered emails that may be pertinent to the case.