Emails between State Department officials in Pakistan and Washington, D.C., about potential drone strikes are reportedly at the center of a high-profile FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
FBI officials told the Wall Street Journal Thursday that the emails, which were forwarded to Clinton’s unsecured server, discussed whether the State Department should raise concerns about planned CIA drone strikes in Pakistan.
Those conversations have since been marked classified, but at the time they were written, they were transmitted on the State Department’s unsecured network.
The emails were sent during what was characterized as an “often-narrow time frame” between when the State Department learned of the CIA’s intentions and when the strikes would be carried out.
Clinton has repeatedly argued nothing she sent or received was marked classified.
But the report Thursday shed new light on the sensitive intelligence at the heart of the FBI’s criminal probe, which has caused trouble for Clinton’s presidential campaign for months.
