With the FBI reviewing the security of her email system, Hillary Clinton agreed to turn over her personal email server to the Justice Department. CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford reports.
The FBI took possession of the personal e-mail server used by Hillary Clinton during her tenure as secretary of state, according to a published report. However, Barbara Wells, an attorney for Denver-based computer services firm Platte River Networks, told The Washington Post that federal agents picked up the server from a private data center in New Jersey Wednesday afternoon. Wells told the The Washington Post that the server “was blank” and no longer contained useful information.
The Washington Post reported that Platte River Networks had been hired by former President Bill and Hillary Clinton to upgrade their private e-mail network in June 2013, after Hillary Clinton had left the State Department. As part of the computer work, the old server was taken from the basement of the Clintons’ Chappaqua, N.Y. home and moved to the Platte River New Jersey data center.
Hillary Clinton announced that she would turn the server over to the FBI Tuesday. Also on Tuesday, Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III told members of Congress that at least two emails that processed through the device while she was U.S. Secretary of State contained information that warranted one of the government’s highest levels of classification. Some experts say this is very concerning because the U.S. Secretary of State is one of the top targets for intelligence by foreign enemies.
An investigation may determine whether she received emails with classified information in them, and if so, whether information in those emails should have been classified in the first place. Those questions have yet to be answered.” At this point in time outsiders investigating the Clinton email controversy don’t have any idea whether computer forensics might recover data and emails on the server. Investigation would also include examining emails saved on other people’s cell phones and computers and putting together the puzzle.
Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has denied the emails contained classified information include any markings that indicate classified content.
A State Department official told Fox News that the intelligence community inspector general, who raised the the concerns about classified Clinton’s emails, made clear that at least one of those messages contained information that could only have come from the intelligence community.
“If so, they would have had to come in with all the appropriate classification markings,” the official said.
If the Hillary Rodham Clinton camp says that the markings weren’t there, then someone may have removed the markings. That would be a felony. The official questioned whether someone tampered with that message.
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