Hillary Clinton: I Don’t Remember Receiving Any “briefing or training” in Handling Classified Information


Yes, Hillary really told the FBI that she received no training in regards to using email at the State Department whatsoever. Granted, it’s possible that she was stretching the truth in classic Clinton fashion, but it’s difficult to imagine that out of all the lies she could use to protect herself, this was the one she came up with:

During her consequential July interview with the FBI, Hillary Clinton displayed a slim grasp of the fine points for handling classified information and often expressed little recall for specific emails containing sensitive information that transited through a private server during her tenure as secretary of State.

Clinton, who could not remember receiving “any briefing or training” for handling such information, later acknowledged to agents that she did not recognize a common document marking used to identify it as classified information.

In a partially redacted 11-page interview released Friday by the FBI, along with a 47-page summary of the now-closed investigation into her handling of classified information and use of a private email server, Clinton said she used her own BlackBerry for both personal and official business “out of convenience” and noted that she had spoken with former secretary of State Colin Powell who maintained the same practice while in office, “as had other secretaries of State before him.”

In Friday’s package of unclassified investigative documents, the FBI determined that Clinton’s email server had not been hacked, but it could not make the same determination about the 13 BlackBerry devices she used as secretary of State.

All of those devices, the report said, could not be located for analysis. Of the three iPad tablets Clinton used, the report said, two were analyzed, and there was no evidence they had been hacked.

The email account of Sidney Blumenthal, a former Clinton aide and confidant, was hacked in March 2013, the report said, and emails between him and Clinton were released by the hacker, Marcel Lehel Lazar of Romania, aka Guccifer.

Lazar was sentenced Thursday to 52 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to breaching the online accounts of dozens of Americans.

Though Clinton told investigators  she believed “everyone at State” knew she had a private email address, she did not “explicitly request permission to use a private server or email address.”

“During her tenure, no one at State raised concerns regarding Clinton’s use of a private server or email address,” according to the interview transcript.

Source: USA Today



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