DOJ reportedly again looking at Hillary Clinton’s email server
The Justice Department is taking another look at Hillary Clinton’s private email server, according to a report.
Investigators are going to look at how the former secretary of state’s team dealt with classified information sent over the server, according to an ally of Attorney General Jeff Sessions who spoke with the Daily Beast.
News of the rejuvenated probe comes two days after President Trump suggested in a tweet that top Clinton aide Huma Abedin be jailed for “disregarding basic security protocols.”
It was the latest statement from the commander-in-chief over his former Democratic opponent’s email usage. In early December, he wrote: “Many people in our Country are asking what the ‘Justice’ Department is going to do about the fact that totally Crooked Hillary, AFTER receiving a subpoena from the United States Congress, deleted and ‘acid washed’ 33,000 Emails? No justice!”
DOJ investigators will look at how classified information was sent over the server in Clinton’s Westchester basement, who fired it off and how much was turned up in past probes, those familiar with the Justice Department’s mindset told the Daily Beast.
An email dump by the State Department last week showed emails marked classified from Abedin were on her then-husband Anthony Weiner’s computer.
Whether those emails were classified when they were sent wasn’t immediately clear.
Nor was it apparent when federal officials decided to take a fresh look at the emails.
The DOJ didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
Stephen Boyd, assistant attorney general for legislative affairs, signaled in a Nov. 13 letter to House Judiciary Chair Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) the department was interested in the messages.
Sessions, he wrote, “directed senior federal prosecutors to evaluate certain issues” that Goodlatte wanted to know about.
Officials planned to “make recommendations as to whether any matters not currently under investigation should be opened,” Boyd added in the letter.
Trump made Clinton’s use of a private email server a top campaign issue. Federal investigators determined in summer 2016 that, while the use of the server was careless, the former top diplomat didn’t knowingly break any laws.
The former New York senator blamed then-FBI Director James Comey reopening the case right before the election on her shocking loss.
Trump has called for Clinton to be investigated even after winning the election. He’s also blamed Comey, who he fired in May, for allegedly letting Clinton get away without any charges.
The DOJ’s inspector general is expected to release a report this spring over the FBI’s investigation.
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