‘I Had Zero Emails That Were Classified,’ Hillary Clinton Claims
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that there were no classified emails found following the FBI probe into whether she misused her private server in 2016.
“The fact is that I had zero emails that were classified,” she wrote on Twitter on Sept. 6.
In contrast to her statement, a government report indicated that 193 classified emails had been drafted and sent to or from her server.
Specifically, “81 email chains containing approximately 193 individual emails that were classified from the CONFIDENTIAL to TOP SECRET levels at the time the emails were drafted on UNCLASSIFIED systems and sent to or from Clinton’s personal server,” stated a 2018 Department of Justice inspector general’s report.
Clinton was also interviewed by the FBI about her use of a private email account while serving as Secretary of State.
According to then-FBI Director James Comey, Hillary should have known that many of the topics under discussion were classified, even if they were not so marked.
“We assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account,” Comey noted at the time.
Comey ultimately recommended that she not be prosecuted, but said Clinton and her team had been extremely careless.
Trump Claims Double Standard
Clinton posted her statement after former President Donald Trump lashed out at the double standard applied to the FBI’s raid on his Florida residence and the agency’s decision on Clinton’s mishandling of classified documents back then.
Trump reportedly told the crowd at his Pennsylvania rally on Sept. 3, “We are being assaulted by the same groups—the FBI and DOJ—that just a few years ago declared no reasonable prosecutor would charge … Hillary after she set up a secret illegal server to hide her family’s pay-for-play schemes.
“Crammed full of classified information, allowed it to be plundered by foreign
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