FBI formally confirms its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email server
In a letter dated February 2 and filed in court Monday, the FBI’s general counsel, James Baker, notes that in public statements and congressional testimony, the FBI “has acknowledged generally that it is working on matters related to former Secretary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
Clinton is on record saying:
“I never sent or received any classified material, they are retroactively classifying it. I agree completely with Secretary Powell who said today this is an absurdity. I think the American people will know it’s an absurdity, and I have absolutely no concerns about it whatsoever.”
Unfortunately, Secretary Powell lost all credibility with the progressive base when he lied in front of the U.N. and flashed a bottle of fake anthrax to attempt to scare us into a war (spoiler — it worked).
Clinton added:
“But I have to add, if there’s a security review about me, there will have to be security reviews for a lot of other people including Republican officeholders because we have this absurd situation of retroactive classifications, honest to goodness, this just beggars the imagination."
Which is sort of like her answer on releasing the transcripts. Only if everyone else ever does it. The rules are sometimes slightly different when we are dealing with the Clintons. It’s like suggesting a sexual predator only go to jail after all the other predators are caught and jailed. The “they-also-did-it” is a terrible defense.
James Baker, FBI agent in charge is the Clinton investigation, says the FBI cannot say more “without adversely affecting on-going law enforcement efforts.”
Concerns have been raised that Justin Cooper, a longtime aide to former President Bill Clinton, managed the system and had no security clearance or expertise in computer security, and that Clinton's server was configured to allow users to connect openly from the Internet and control it remotely using Microsoft's Remote Desktop Services