FBI investigators seized four servers from the State Department’s headquarters in an effort to determine how “top secret” information made it onto Hillary Clinton’s private network.
Forensic experts are examining the servers for evidence that Clinton’s top aides moved classified data off the government’s network and onto the former secretary of state’s private one, according to a report by the Washington Free Beacon.
A State Department spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.
It is not yet clear whether the confiscated hardware served the classified or unclassified network at the State Department. The agency keeps the two networks separate for security reasons, and the fact that now-classified intelligence has surfaced on records from Clinton’s private network has raised questions about whether that information was somehow lifted from the official classified network.
News of the FBI’s latest seizure came hours after sources acknowledged the FBI had expanded its probe to include a Connecticut-based technology firm that backed up copies of Clinton’s emails to the cloud beginning in June 2013.
