A guide to Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal for people who hate to read

Published September 2, 2016 9:13pm ET



The FBI produced another major document dump about their investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server, including their interview with the Democratic nominee. They picked the Friday before Labor Day to release the documents.

Clinton’s e-mail server saga has more twists and turns than most mystery novels, and let’s face it — millennials aren’t big into reading.

So, here is a millennial’s guide to the Clinton document dump:

Investigators for the FBI stated that during the interview, Clinton made several outlandish excuses on why she needed a private server and how classified e-mails ended up being released to people without the correct security clearance.

A very bizarre response was that she didn’t understand which documents were classified and relied on her aides to assist her in determining the rules of the State Department.

Clinton also said that she could not recall if she was ever trained on how to handle classified information, even though she signed a non-disclosure agreement on January 22, 2009 stating she did in fact receive training.

Training wasn’t the only thing Clinton couldn’t recall. She stated more than 30 times that a seizure had hurt her memory, and she couldn’t remember several crucial pieces of information including: the process of nominating a drone strike, any specific routine on deleting e-mails, or whether any data on her blackberry was destroyed.

Of course, her e-mails were deleted and phones were destroyed. It happened so frequently, it became a standard practice. When Clinton got new blackberries, old ones would mysteriously go missing, and when they were finally located, Bill Clinton’s aide Justin Cooper would destroy them with a hammer so that they could never be used against her.

 

In case anyone was wondering, Clinton had 13 different devices including blackberries and iPads — not the single phone that she claimed she used on a private server out of convenience.

When the Secretary of State wasn’t having her staff destroy phones, they were busy wiping her memory clean. FBI reported that Clinton had an “oh shit moment” in late March 2015, three weeks after The New York Times broke the story of Clinton’s private server.

At the time Clinton said she looked forward to showing the public her e-mails, but just three weeks after the story broke, the Secretary of State’s team wiped her e-mail server clean.

It’s still unknown however whether or not Clinton’s private server was hacked. According to FBI testimony, she was worried that someone was hacking into her website when she received links to a porn website and if she opened it her information would have gone to three different sources in foreign countries including Russia.