GOP lawmaker: FBI gave immunity to top Clinton aide

Federal Bureau of Investigation report reveals that Obama used a secret pseudonym to send emails Clinton and these emails ended up on her private server.

The episode had not been disclosed until the Federal Bureau of Investigation released on Friday night almost 200 pages of additional records from its year-long investigation into the handling of classified government documents by Clinton and her staff via an unauthorized email server in the basement of her NY home.

The heavily-redacted documents, nearly 200 pages, include summaries of interviews with senior Clinton aides concerning the private email server, and brings to light details previously unknown.

Ms. Abedin claimed she did not recognize the name in question and “expressed her amazement” that the President used the tactic to hide who he was.

Although tens of thousands of Clinton’s emails have been made public since it was revealed she had exclusively used a private email server to conduct official work, emails with the president have been exempt from disclosure.

WALLACE: Well, they didn’t offer it to her. Cheryl Mills asked for it.

Asked when he learned of Clinton’s private emails, Obama responded unequivocally, “the same time that everybody else learned it through news reports”.

Then there is the comment made by FBI Director, James Comey, back on July 7, 2016 in which he stated that Clinton may not have been “particularly sophisticated with respect to classified information and the levels, and the treatment”. The FBI indicated that as the official was being escorted to the elevator following his interview, he told an agent that “after seeing the above referenced documents, he now understood why people were concerned about this matter”.

But that still didn’t answer why Mills felt she needed limited immunity.

The documents contain several previously unknown details.

Mills, who was among Clinton’s closest confidants, voluntarily appeared past year for a lengthy interview as part of the House GOP’s investigation into the 2012 attack on a USA diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that left three Americans dead.

She revealed she had a long conversation with Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, her stepfather, who encouraged her to research before deciding which candidate to support.

“This exchange strongly suggests Clinton and the president knowingly discussed classified material in an unclassified setting and hence broke the law”, Raj Shah, the research director at the Republican National Committee, told the Post.

As a result Hanley received “verbal security counseling” from the DS who told her that the briefing book and document “should never have been in the suite”. Clinton has called her use of the private server a mistake.

Mills’s deal is restricted to information found on a laptop computer she used to sort Clinton’s private emails from the work emails turned over to the State Department in December 2014.