07/12/16
FBI to give deleted Clinton emails back to State Dept.
The FBI will give the State Department thousands of deleted work-related emails that it uncovered while investigating Hillary Clinton’s private server.
The bureau said in a letter filed with a federal court late Tuesday afternoon that, now that the investigation into Clinton is over, it would turn over the emails over to the State Department for record-keeping.
“During the course of the investigation, the FBI obtained certain information that may include agency records of the State Department,” general counsel James Baker told the department.
“In accordance with our policies and procedures, the FBI will be providing this information to your department for review and determination of record status pursuant to the Federal Records Act and subsequent FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] processing as appropriate.”
According to FBI Director James Comey, investigators “discovered several thousand work-related” messages that were not among the roughly 30,000 emails Clinton gave to the government in 2014. The former secretary of State and her lawyers deleted approximately half of the 60,000 emails on her server, claiming at the time that they were purely personal and did not belong in the government’s hands.
The FBI recovered the emails through digital traces left on decommissioned servers and via the inboxes of people with whom Clinton communicated, Comey said.
The State Department did not indicate whether it would release the thousands of new emails to the public, as it did with the 30,000 emails she had already handed over.
https://www.scribd.com/document/318128236/show-temp-3
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“The FBI is very good at keeping secrets, and the people we bought this from, I know a fair amount about them, and I have a high degree of confidence that they are very good at protecting them,” he said.
He only identified this group as “someone outside the government” and said “their motivations align with ours.”
A day before Comey spoke, FBI General Counsel James A. Baker said authorities were still analyzing the phone’s data and that it was “simply too early” to say whether the iPhone contained any useful information.
Baker also said it was not clear whether or when the bureau would reveal what was found on the phone, a decision that he said would only come after they finish analyzing its contents.
(Hmm ... who is the third party?!)
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