FBI: Records from Clinton's email server being held as 'evidence'

www.washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 6/8/16 11:28 AM | By Sarah Westwood

[Red Badger]

FBI agents have confirmed that they recovered records from Hillary Clinton's private server and other electronic devices, but won't reveal any details about those records because that information is being treated as "evidence" in a "pending investigation."

"[A]ll of the materials retrieved from any electronic equipment obtained from former Secretary Clinton for the investigation are evidence, potential evidence, or information that has not yet been assessed for evidentiary value," the FBI said in documents filed with a federal court Monday.

While media reports last year suggested the law enforcement agency had some success pulling potentially deleted emails off Clinton's private server, which it seized in August, the FBI had previously shied away from confirming the existence of recovered records. It also hadn't revealed any details about what was being considered "evidence" in its high-profile investigation.

"Due to the sensitive nature of the investigation, the number of FBI personnel involved in and having knowledge of the pending investigation is limited," the FBI said in the filings.

The FBI argued that disclosing even the number of records it has pulled off Clinton's server, thumb drive or other unnamed devices "could reasonably lead to the public identification and compromising of potential witnesses, as well as defensive actions to conceal activities, elude detection, and/or suppress or fabricate evidence."

The details were revealed through filings in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Vice News against the FBI in search of records related to its investigation of Clinton's private email use.

While the FBI asked a federal judge to allow it to keep information about its probe secret, including a pair of emails sent between FBI and State Department officials, the law enforcement agency did reveal its investigation is focused on a "security referral made for counterintelligence purposes" by the inspector general of the intelligence community.

That detail was the latest to undermine Clinton's repeated argument that the investigation is a routine "security review," and suggests the FBI is looking into the specific mishandling of classified intelligence.

In March 2015, Clinton claimed she had deleted roughly 30,000 emails off her private server because she had deemed them personal in nature. Her legal team submitted another 30,000 "work-related" messages to the State Department in December 2014.

But the FBI's most recent admission may cast further doubt on her claim that every government communication was included in the batch of records she surrendered in 2014.

[Walkingfeather]

THE IMPORTANT POINT OF ALL OF THIS ARTICLE IS THIS LINE. ....

e Department officials, the law enforcement agency did reveal its investigation is focused on a “security referral made for counterintelligence purposes” by the inspector general of the intelligence community.

WHAT INSPECTOR GENERAL OF INTELLIGENCE COMMINITY?
WAS THERE AN INVESTIGATION ?
IS THERE A REPORT FROM THIS OFFICE?
FOIA THIS PLEASE!!!!

[Mariner]

For cases under the Espionage Act, search warrants are optional.

[Thank You Rush]

“”She might be the first female president and will be the first female president indicted and sent to prison, hopefully SuperMax.””

I thought last night when the statement was made about her making history - if she makes it to the WH, we can hope and pray, more history is made by impeaching another CLINTON president. I wouldn’t even care if she wasn’t convicted - just go through the process and wake this country up then maybe we can get down to the real work of repairing the damage....and as the democrats are fond of saying:
MAKING SURE IT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN!

[Thank You Rush]

“”Why don’t they audit her taxes? They got Capone that way.
I’d be willing to bet there’s cooked books somewhere.””

Even that doesn’t work with the Clintons. They own up to errors in their filings and get busy amending the returns...They apparently file erroneous returns and if they don’t get flagged, so much the better. If they do, we’re sorry and we’ll take care of that right away!

[SkyDancer]

Hopefully she’ll be spending all her time with the FBI.

[publius911]

The FBI argued that disclosing even the number of records it has pulled off Clinton's server, thumb drive or other unnamed devices "could reasonably lead to the public identification and compromising of potential witnesses, as well as defensive actions to conceal activities, elude detection, and/or suppress or fabricate evidence."

From our unprecedented, historic first ever unindicted felon Ugly Fat Cow errrr... first ever alleged woman candidate ever nominated by a previously major national political party for eligibility as president of the United States?

That unprecedented and historic event?

[publius911]

“”Given the Department’s current [Freedom of Information Act] (FOIA) workload and the complexity of these documents, it can process about 500 pages a month, meaning it would take approximately 16-and-2/3 years to complete the review of the Mills documents, 33-and-1/3 years to finish the review of the Sullivan documents, and 25 years to wrap up the review of the Kennedy documents — or 75 years in total,” the State Department said in the filing.””

Oh I get it now.
They are all sequential work done by a single individual, and she doesn't graduate College until the spring of 2017.

CHECK!

[TigersEye]

But the breaking news is that it will take 75 years to "go through them all".

Hillary did it in a couple of weeks. What's this 75 years nonsense?

Very good point!