Top 9 highlights from Hillary Clinton’s Federal Bureau of Investigation report

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell accused Hillary Clinton of trying to “pin” her email scandal problems on him, telling People that Clinton had already used a private server for a year before telling her about his own email setup.

The FBI investigation into Clinton’s email ended in July, when FBI Director James Comey said Clinton had been “extremely careless” in her handling of government information, but that her actions did not merit criminal prosecution.

Hillary Clinton told the Federal Bureau of Investigation she relied on the judgments of her staff not to send emails containing classified information to the private email account she relied on as secretary of state, adding that she was unclear about a classification marking on official government documents.

Clinton, who is challenging Republican Donald Trump for the White House in the November 8 election, has been dogged for more than a year by the fallout from her decision to use an unauthorised private email account run from the basement of her Chappaqua, New York, home.

Clinton said she did not have conversations with anyone “with regard to using the server to avoid” Freedom of Information Act regulations. “I got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data”.

13 Individuals had direct email contact with Clinton’s private address while she was at the State Department.

Clinton told investigators during her July 2 interview she did not recall ever receiving training or guidance on handling classified information during her time as secretary of state and relied on aides’ judgment on what should and should not be transmitted via email.

At one point in the interview, she was presented with a 2012 email that included a “c” marking before one of the paragraphs.

“These documents demonstrate Hillary Clinton’s reckless and downright risky handling of classified information during her tenure as Secretary of State”, Ryan said in a statement.

Spokesmen for Clinton did not respond to questions about the concussion and other aspects of the FBI’s summary, but released a statement welcoming the summary’s release.

While the drop of any criminal charges dispelled a huge legal cloud over her presidential campaign, Clinton’s trust deficit with voters only deteriorated. She explained she thought a “non paper” was a way to convey the unofficial stance of the United States government to foreign governments. “This report gives new details on how Clinton’s emails were deleted or kept, writing that initially a single staffer sorted through tens of thousands of emails on her laptop by looking for those which came from a “.gov” or “.mil” address. Mills instructed an unidentified person to modify the email retention policy on Clinton’s clintonemail.com email address to reflect the change. Powell, who also used a private email account, warned Clinton that if it became “public” that she used a smartphone to “do business”, her emails could become official government records subject to disclosure. An FBI scan showed attempts to break into the system from external IP addresses over a longer period of time. The FBI report details steps taken by Clinton’s staff that appear meant to hamper the recovery of deleted data, including smashing her old Blackberry smartphones with a hammer and using special software to wipe the hard drive of a server she had used.

Despite his reluctance to comment on whether Clinton had lied to the public, Comey revealed during that hearing that some of the former USA secretary of state’s email defenses were false.

The FBI said it did not find conclusive evidence that Clinton’s email server had been compromised by foreign hackers.