Hillary Clinton’s campaign downplayed the FBI’s release of more than 50 pages of its interview notes with the Democratic nominee, and said the documents show she did nothing wrong when she used a private email server to conduct business at the State Department.
“We are pleased that the FBI has released the materials from Hillary Clinton’s interview, as we had requested,” campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said Friday.
“While her use of a single email account was clearly a mistake and she has taken responsibility for it, these materials make clear why the Justice Department believed there was no basis to move forward with this case,” he said.
The notes released Friday show Clinton reportedly told FBI agents that she didn’t understand the State Departments classification system when she headed the agency.
“When asked what the parenthetical ‘C’ meant before a paragraph … Clinton stated she did not know and could only speculate it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order,” the interview notes read.
The FBI notes also revealed Clinton used approximately 13 separate personal mobile devices to send and receive classified information over her private email server. Eight of these mobile devices were used when she served at the State Department.
Clinton’s attorneys said they were “unable locate any of these devices” during the whole of the FBI’s investigation of her private server, the federal agency’s interview notes read.
