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FBI Releases Hillary Clinton Email Report (cnn.com)

Posted by msmash on from the leaky-emails dept.

The FBI released 58-pages documents on Friday detailing its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, and a summary of her interview with agents, providing the most thorough look yet at the probe that has dogged the campaign of the Democratic presidential nominee. CNN reports: Clinton repeatedly told the FBI she lacked recollection of key events. She said she "could not recall any briefing or training by State related to the retention of federal records or handling classified information," according to the FBI's notes of their July 2 interview with Clinton. Fallout from Clinton's use of a private email server continues to dog the Democratic presidential nominee's campaign, as her lead over her Republican counterpart Donald Trump has been cut in half since her post convention bounce last month, according to CNN's Poll of Polls released Thursday. Trump and other Republicans have stepped up their attacks connecting the emails to questions over whether Clinton gave preferential treatment to donors to her family's foundation. The bureau is making the information public in response to numerous Freedom of Information Act requests, including from CNN. "Today the FBI is releasing a summary of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's July 2, 2016 interview with the FBI concerning allegations that classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on a personal e-mail server she used during her tenure," the agency said in a statement. "We also are releasing a factual summary of the FBI's investigation into this matter."

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  1. "could not recall" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "could not recall any briefing or training by State related to the retention of federal records or handling classified information"

    Funny, every one of us poor bastards who actually would go to jail over a classified release remembers the briefing distinctly. She, having had the statutory authority to determine what's classified or not with the stroke of a pen (Original Classification Authority) doesn't remember any of the training and couldn't be assed to declassify what she told her subordinates to email her. If she had any integrity, at all, she should shoot herself.

    1. Re:"could not recall" by sycodon · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I recall my training on confidential information when I entered the Defense Industry nearly thirty years ago. Hell, I remember the Food Safety course I took at age 17.

      It's clear Hillary has some kind of Brain Injury issue going on.

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    2. Re:"could not recall" by _Sharp'r_ · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yup. She's either senile, incompetent or a pathological liar.

      I vote for "all of the above"...

      Doesn't recognize what classified markings look like, doesn't remember any of her briefings on it, losing her blackberry dozens of times...

      Does anyone actually believe all this stuff? She's been conveniently "forgetting" things for 25 years, going back to the Whitewater FBI investigation interviews. It's a bit much to believe she has the worst memory ever, but only when it comes to things which are potentially damaging to her criminally and politically.

      Don't get me started on the fact that the FBI conveniently released all this damaging information as a Friday-Before-Holiday news avoidance dump.

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    3. Re:"could not recall" by kwbauer · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes. She sustained this injury early in her life. It is called "I am better than you" syndrome AKA "I am not one of the little people" syndrome.

    4. Re:"could not recall" by magarity · · Score: 4, Insightful

      if Americans vote for trump it'll be simultaneously the saddest thing and the most fucking funny thing that has ever happened.

      It will probably be more like when Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota except on a national level. Endless complaining by the establishment on both sides but not much coming of it by the end.

    5. Re:"could not recall" by myid · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I recall my training on confidential information when I entered the Defense Industry nearly thirty years ago. Hell, I remember the Food Safety course I took at age 17.

      It's clear Hillary has some kind of Brain Injury issue going on.

      According to this article,

      Mrs. Clinton told the FBI she couldn’t remember if she was ever briefed on preserving records, but said it may have happened in 2012, after she fell and suffered a concussion and had a blood clot.

      “Based on her doctor’s advice, she could only work at State for a few hours a day and could not recall every briefing she received,” the agents wrote in their notes.

      Clinton became Secretary of State in 2009. I doubt she got her briefing on preserving records in 2012.

      Claiming that she can't remember things because of her concussion helps keep her out of legal trouble. However, it doesn't help her claim that her mind is healthy enough to be president. Well, maybe she'll say that her mind was messed up then, but that it's ok now.

    6. Re: "could not recall" by ScentCone · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Things will be horrible shit for just about everyone if Trump is elected.

      Because things are going SO well thanks to Clinton's policies and advice when she was Secretary of State? I wonder how a couple million Syrian refugees feel about that. Or the people now living in that shining bastion of liberty and peace, Lybia. No doubt you're thinking of the nice people in Crimea or Ukraine who are just thrilled to living where USSR 2.0 is testing the waters. Or are you thinking of the people in Pacific Rim nations who ware watching China take over international waters? Or maybe your contemplating the sterling success of economies in Central and South America, where pandered-to lefty kleptocracies are causing more than their usual share of suffering? Yes, definitely - we need the US to do its level best to ensure there's more of the same. Great idea.

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    7. Re: "could not recall" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      There two types of countries. Those that use the metric system and those that have been to the moon.

  2. Re:Could not recall briefings because of concusion by DidgetMaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem with the 'convenience' argument is that it just doesn't hold water. Maybe if she had just set up a gmail account and used it, then convenience might sound plausible. Instead, she went to a lot of trouble to set up a private server and make sure everything flowed through it. If she is going to own up to anything close to the truth, it would be to admit is was about control. Control over what information got out to the public. Control over what information was given out when a subpoena or FOIA request came in.

  3. "I do not recollect" by 31415926535897 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    See, she's not a malicious lawbreaker, she's a drooling moron. All hail our next Commander-in-Chief!

    Seriously, if she can't recall basic instructions, how can she be trusted to lead the country?

    [No, don't get me started on Trump. Please, everyone, vote 3rd party.]

  4. Re:Could not recall briefings because of concusion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So you want a person that don't care about security or classified information running the country?
    Not saying vote for Trump. But there has to be a better person then either of these two.

  5. Hillary news break by tripleevenfall · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The executive branch has announced that it has thoroughly investigated itself, and it's found that it did nothing wrong.

  6. Loony Site by bigsexyjoe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not a Clinton supporter and I don't think you have to trust her or the main stream media. But that is a wacko right wing site.
    http://www.eutimes.net/2016/08...
    http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/E...

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  7. That's it - I'm going Libertarian by erp_consultant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hillary is clearly a lying, deceptive, corrupt, sociopath dirt bag. Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican I just don't see how it can be viewed any other way. Trump is just a buffoon. A carnival barker. An embarrassment.

    Neither one of them deserves my vote. So what to do? I suppose I could just stay home and not bother to vote but that seems unpatriotic to me. People fought and died for my right to vote so the least I can do is exercise that right. So I'm voting for Gary Johnson the Libertarian candidate. He hasn't got a snowballs chance in hell of winning but that is not the point. I just can't bring myself to vote for either of those two shit sandwiches so at least I can cast a vote for Johnson with a clear conscience.