“Hillary Clinton is applying for a job that begins each day with a top secret intelligence briefing, and the notes from her FBI interview reinforce her tremendously bad judgment and dishonesty,” said Jason Miller, a senior communications advisor on the Trump campaign, in a statement issued soon after the FBI posted the documents online. Her Republican rival, Donald Trump, has hammered such points with voters, and the FBI reports immediately provided the business mogul with more ammunition to raise questions about the former first lady’s integrity. In an ABC News-Washington Post poll last month, 59% of those surveyed said they find Clinton to be not honest and trustworthy. The release provided another vivid example of how the email scandal will probably continue to dog the Clinton campaign until election day and beyond.Ĭlinton remains saddled with dismal approval ratings and uneasiness among the electorate about her trustworthiness. The partially redacted reports contained no bombshell disclosures, though they provided details of the FBI’s yearlong probe into Clinton’s controversial use of a private email server while she served as the nation’s top diplomat.
The director told reporters that although Clinton had been extremely careless in her use of a private email account, there was no “clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information.” In July, the Justice Department declined to file charges in the case, following the recommendation of FBI Director James B. The 11-page interview summary and 47-page FBI report, which uncovered no evidence that Clinton’s emails had been hacked or that she broke the law, were released Friday by the bureau in response to a number of Freedom of Information Act requests. “Clinton understood this type of conversation as part of the routine deliberation process.” “Clinton stated deliberation over a future drone strike did not give her cause for concern regarding classification,” the report states. drone strike, despite the fact that the program is covert. Clinton even defended an email chain involving discussion of a possible U.S.
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