Clinton campaign says email server to go to Justice Dept

Following months of criticism, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton instructed her attorney to turn over her private email server and thumb driver to the Justice Department, reported CNN. Clinton has said she was confident she never sent or received information that was classified at the time.

In addition to the email server, Clinton is also handing over a set of mini-hard drives containing copies of thousands of her emails.

“Both the State Department and Intelligence Community inspectors general should be looking into the staff use of the Clinton private server for official State Department business”.

McCullough has said he found at least four emails in a sample of 40 Clinton emails he was allowed to inspect contained information that was classified at the time it was sent, including two that contained information deemed “top secret”, the highest classification level.

A referral from the inspector general of the intelligence community to the Justice Department that led to the current investigation did not allege any criminal wrongdoing, and Clinton’s attorney has said federal authorities simply want assurances that the emails continue to be properly stored.

Her use of private email has been a major issue in the presidential race.

The Clintons learned as they fought through scandals while in the White House in the 1990s that “you have to put the bad news out and make the best of it you can”, said Andrew Smith, an associate professor of practice in the University of New Hampshire’s political science department. “Of course, if she really cares about transparency, she would never have had a secret server in the first place”.

Try as she might to focus on the policies she wants to enact if elected president, Hillary Rodham Clinton just can’t dig out of her inbox.

Smith said that of the available choices, turning the server over to the Justice Department “is the best she’s got”. The Justice Department routinely checks into whether classified information has been mishandled. “It’s better to do it with the administration who you have some pull with rather than a Republican Congress”. A State Department spokesman said in a statement Tuesday that portions of two emails that were circulated on unclassified systems should be upgraded to top-secret status.

To date, the two agencies most critical to securing this information (FBI and State Department) have failed to assure the American people that they are taking the necessary steps to protect America’s national security interests. GOP officials and candidates have said the newest revelations point to Clinton malfeasance as secretary of state.

Each will give Republicans another opportunity to remind voters of the issue, as Rep. Darrell Issa did Wednesday, saying Clinton should be investigated criminally. Even Democrats had started to call on Clinton to say more.

Word that Clinton had relented on giving up possession of the server, which she has previously said she wiped clean, came as Republican Sen.

Senior Republican Reince Priebus said Mrs Clinton had “run out of options” in the face of FBI scrutiny. “She knows she did something wrong and has run out of ways to cover it up”. There is no evidence she used encryption to prevent prying eyes from accessing the emails or her personal server.