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- ABC News
- November 7, 2016
A Timeline of Hillary Clinton's Email Saga
The drama surrounding her email started well before the presidential campaign.
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Citing the labor required to review the emails, the State Department said the emails will not be released for “several months.”
At a March 2015 news conference at the U.N., Clinton said that after she left office, \"the State Department asked former secretaries of state for our assistance in providing copies of work-related emails from our personal accounts. I responded right away and provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related, which totaled roughly 55,000 printed pages, even though I knew that the State Department already had the vast majority of them. We went through a thorough process to identify all of my work-related emails and deliver them to the State Department.\"
During an interview with ABC News’ David Muir, Clinton said the use of two separate accounts was \"a mistake.\"
\"What I had done was allowed, it was above board. But in retrospect, certainly, as I look back at it now, even though it was allowed, I should've used two accounts. One for personal, one for work-related emails. That was a mistake. I'm sorry about that. I take responsibility. And I'm trying to be as transparent as I possibly can to not only release 55,000 pages of my emails, turn over my server,\" she said.
Previously, she had told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell that she was “sorry that this has been confusing to people and raised a lot of questions.\"
In a debate with Sen. Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, Clinton said she had \"absolutely no concerns about\" the investigation.
\"I never sent or received any classified material,\" she said.
On Saturday, July 2, Clinton \"gave a voluntary interview\" to the FBI that was \"about her email arrangements,\" according to a statement from her spokesman Nick Merrill, and the interview lasted about three-and-a-half hours.
The next day, Clinton called into NBC's \"Meet the Press\" and said that she had \"been eager to do it and was pleased to have the opportunity to assist the department in bringing its review to a conclusion.\"
On July 5, FBI Director Comey said its investigation could not \"find a case that would support bringing criminal charges,\" though there were several areas where Comey made it clear that Clinton and her team mishandled her email.
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Comey said that 110 emails in 52 email chains were determined to contain some form of classified information at the time they were sent.
He went on to specify that Clinton was on seven of those chains that were classified as top secret.
“There is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. For example, seven email chains concerned matters that were classified at the top secret, special access program at the time they were sent and received,\" Comey said.
Comey released a statement today, just 11 days before the election, saying that the FBI is going to continue the previously closed investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails from her time as secretary of state.
\"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation,\" Comey wrote in a letter released today.
Comey wrote in the letter that after being briefed on the unrelated case, he agreed, \"the FBI should take appropriated investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.\"
\"Although the FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant, and I cannot predict how long it will take us to complete this additional work, I believe it is important to update your Committees about our efforts in light of my previous testimony,\" reads the letter to the leaders of various congressional committees.
Donald Trump opened a campaign rally in New Hampshire shortly after the release of the letter, announcing the news to cheers.
\"Hillary Clinton's corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office,\" Trump said.
He praised the FBI's decision to revisit the case.
\"This was a grave miscarriage of justice that the American people fully understood,\" Trump said. \"Perhaps finally justice will be done.\"
Comey issued his second letter to Congress in nine days, this time informing lawmakers that the review of emails from Anthony Weiner's computer was complete and that the investigation did not change the FBI's July conclusion that there was no prosecutable offense committed by Clinton or her team of advisers.
Clinton campaign communications director Jen Palmieri said she was \"glad this matter is resolved.\"
Trump, however, pushed back against the announcement.
\"Right now, she is being protected by a rigged system,\" Trump said Sunday night at a rally in Michigan. \"It’s a totally rigged system. I’ve been saying it for a long time. You can’t review 650,000 new emails in eight days. You can’t do it, folks.\"
ABC News' Jonathan Karl, Devin Dwyer and Mary Bruce contributed to this report.
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