Clinton blames State colleagues for classified secrets in emails

“I stand by what I said: I did not send or receive any material marked classified”, Clinton told ABC News, in a series of interviews Friday after the shootings in Dallas that also touched on the investigation into her email system.

Lynch’s decision came one day after FBI Director James Comey said his agency recommended no criminal charges against Clinton while he blasted the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee for the 2016 USA election for being “extremely careless” in handling classified information.

She had previously asserted that she never sent or received e-mails “marked classified”. The most serious is loss of security clearances, which could complicate Mrs Clinton’s naming of a national security team if she becomes president. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) commented that, “Declining to prosecute Secretary Clinton for recklessly mishandling and transmitting national security information will set a bad precedent”, adding that “the findings of this investigation also make clear that Secretary Clinton misled the American people when she was confronted with her criminal actions”. “They, I believe, did not believe they were sending any material that was classified”, she told CNN.

“I just believe that the material that was being communicated by professionals, many with years of handling sensitive classified material, they did not believe that it was”, Clinton said.

“Unlike mere mortals, Madame Secretary Clinton mustn’t be held to commitments she doesn’t happen to remember making”.

Last week, FBI Director James Comey said that 110 emails in 52 email chains were determined to contain some form of classified information at the time they were sent.

“I think he’s clarified it”. It was unclear what clarification Clinton was referring to. “I have said many times, and I repeat clearly today, it was a mistake for me to use personal e-mail and I regret that”.

While Clinton’s Republican opponents have fumed at the decision not to file criminal charges, Clinton and her staff have disputed some of Comey’s criticisms that undermine her argument that she has better judgement than Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate.

“I did not coordinate that with anyone – the White House, Department of Justice – nobody outside the Federal Bureau of Investigation family had any idea what I was about to say”, he told lawmakers.

Earlier, the State Department had suspended its own investigations after the FBI started its investigation into the matter. She also said she only used one mobile device for emails and turned over all of her work-related emails to the State Department.

In another potential political headache for Clinton, Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group, on Friday asked a USA judge in Washington for permission to question her under oath in its long-running legal pursuit of records relating to top aide Huma Abedin’s overlapping employments by the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and an outside consulting firm.