Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not know that emails marked with “C” meant they were classified, according to a detailed report released Friday by the FBI on its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server.
The 58-page report includes a summary of the FBI's three-hour interview with the former secretary of State, according to The Hill.
The 11-page summary of the FBI’s interview with Clinton is likely the most complete record of the conversation, which was neither on the record nor recorded, in accordance with FBI policy, the website noted.
According to the document, Clinton did not recall her specific conversations regarding the creation of the clintonemail.com domain.
“It was a matter of convenience to move onto a system maintained by her husband’s staff,” according to the investigator’s notes.
She also did not recall receiving any emails she thought should not have been on an unclassified system, according to the interview notes.
Clinton reportedly told investigators she could not recall getting any briefings on how to handle classified information or comply with laws governing the preservation of federal records, the summary of her interview shows, according to Reuters.
"However, in December of 2012, Clinton suffered a concussion and then around the New Year had a blood clot," the FBI's summary said. "Based on her doctor's advice, she could only work at State for a few hours a day and could not recall every briefing she received."
In July, FBI Director James Comey announced that he did not recommend charging Clinton with willfully mishandling classified information.
While Comey called the former Secretary of State “extremely careless” for using the server, he repeatedly said that “no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”
Clinton has said she used private emails out of "convenience", though she has also admitted it "would have been better" to have two accounts to separate work and personal emails.
The documents related to the investigation have been a hot commodity on Capitol Hill, where GOP lawmakers have pushed Comey for more information about the classified messages that passed through the controversial email system Clinton used when she was Secretary of State.
The agency sent lawmakers documents relating to the investigation earlier this month, including summaries of the agency’s interviews with Clinton and her senior aides.
Meanwhile, the State Department has been ordered to review and determine the potential release of 14,900 documents, most of which are believed to be emails to or from Clinton, part of a cache that the FBI turned over to the State Department at the end of its probe into Clinton's use of the server.
A federal judge has ordered the State Department to start releasing the additional emails starting on September 13.
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