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URL Source: https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-cl ... -r.-clinton-part-04-of-04/view
Published: Oct 18, 2016
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Post Date: 2016-10-18 19:23:32 by nolu chan
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FBI 302 EXCERPTS https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/hillary-r.-clinton-part-04-of-04/view [Read] https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/hillary-r.-clinton-part-04-of-04/at_download/file [100 pp. PDF] Hillary R. Clinton Part 04 of 04 At 26-27: Following the above exchange, [redacted] was summoned to an "all agency" meeting at STATE to discuss matters pertaining to the classification review of pending CLINTON FLIA materials. [Redacted][redacted] official from STATE, along with representatives from CIA, DIA and other government agencies were present. PATRICK KENNEDY presidedover the meeting. During the conversation, a participant specifically asked whether any of the emails in question were classified. Making eye contact with [redacted] KENNEDY remaiked, "Well, we'll see." [Redacted] believed this was reference to the FBI's categorization of the SECRET//NOFORN email which KENNEDY was attempting to influence. In a private meeting with KENNEDY following the all agency meeting, KENNEDY asked [redacted] whether the FBI could "see their way to marking the email unclassified?" According to [redacted] KENNEDY spent the next 15 minutes debating the classification of the email and attempting to influence the FBI to change its markings. Since [redacted] continued to assert that the email was appropriately marked SECRET//NOFORN, KENNEDY asked who else in the FBI he could speak with on the matter. [Redacted] referred KENNEDY] to MICHAEL STEINBACH, Assistant Director of CTD. [Redacted] was then present during a conference call involving KENNEDY and STEINBACH in which KENNEDY continued to pressure the FBI to change the classified markings on the email to unclassified. STEINBACH refused to do so. Prior to ending the conversation, KENNEDY asked whether the FBI or STATE would conduct the public statements on the matter. STEINBACH advised KENNEDY that the FBI wold not comment publicly onthe matter. The conference call ended and, according to [redacted] the Associated Press (AP) published the story within the hour. Former Secretary of State CLINTON appeared in front of the press shortly thereafter to deny having sent classified emails on her private email server. At 39: Contrary to statements made on August 6, 2015, TURNER advised that only five of the six laptops are in the possession of Williams & Connelly, the sixth being in the possession of [redacted], counsel for CHERYL MILLS, former Chief of Staff for CLINTON. [Redacted] admitted that the computer in his possession has been connected to the Internet on numerous occasions subsequent to being loaded with the classified email communications of HILLARY CLINTON. This laptop was possessed by CHERYL MILLS but utilized by HEATHER SAMUELSON, an attorney on her staff, to conduct a review of approximately 60,000 emails originally contained on CLINTON's private email server. According to [redacted] SAMUELSON deleted CLINTON's personal emails from the original 60,000 resulting in the 30,490 emails eventually turned over to the FBI. [Redacted] claimed the other emails had been deleted from the laptop but was unable to specify whether they had been forensically wiped to an unrecoverable state. Both [redacted] and TURNER admitted that the emails contained on these laptops had been viewed by attorneys who did not have a security clearance at the time they reviewed the material. TURNER said the emails did not contain classification markers and thus they were not aware that they were classified at the time. At 53: The Information Programs and Services (IPS), Bureau of Administration oversaw the FOIA program. In or around November or December 2014, in response to a FOIA request, IPS officials were notified they would pick-up 14 banker boxes of emails at former Secretary of State Hillary CLINTON's office related to CLINTON's use of personal email to conduct official STATE business. Later [redacted] to pick-up only 12 boxes at Williams & Connolly, LLP. [Redacted] and IPS officials were unsure what happened to the other two boxes. The items in the boxes were stacked with no folders or known method of organization. At 55: The review officials that [redacted] and [redacted] used for the review of the 296 emails were not the same normal review officials that the IPS team use on a regular basis. For example, [redacted] and [redacted] did not use the IPS' normal point of contact for the FBI, [redacted] but instead used someone from the Department of Justice to count as the FBI reviewer. The names [redacted] and [redacted] stated they used for White House Counsel and the Department of Defense were also not the regular reviewers the IPS team used. [Redacted] and [redacted] upon being asked directly, would not give a name of who they coordinated reviews with at the CIA. Throughout the process, [redacted] stated if an email/item should have a B(1) exemption, then IPS would use a B(1) exemption. Despite that, at the end of the referral process, IPS was told to run everything by Legislative Affairs and [redacted] IPS officials felt intimidated when they used or suggested the use of the B(1) exemption on any of the 296 emails. In addition to [reacted] and [redacted] KENNEDY and [redacted] were named as some of the STATE officials who pressured IPS employees to not label anything as classified.
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