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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-aide-leaves-interview-once-the-fbi-broaches-an-off-limits-topic/2016/05/10/cce5e0e8-161c-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html

Near the beginning of a recent interview, an FBI investigator broached a topic with longtime Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills that her lawyer and the Justice Department had agreed would be off limits, according to several people familiar with the matter.

Mills and her lawyer left the room — though both returned a short time later — and prosecutors were somewhat taken aback that their FBI colleague had ventured beyond what was anticipated, the people said.

Investigators consider Mills — who served as chief of staff while Clinton was secretary of state — to be a cooperative witness. But the episode demonstrates some of the tension surrounding the criminal probe into possible mishandling of classified information involving the leading Democratic presidential candidate. In the coming weeks, prosecutors and FBI agents hope to be able to interview Clinton herself as they work to bring the case to a close.

The incident was described to The Washington Post by several people, including U.S. law enforcement officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing and those involved could face professional consequences for discussing it publicly.

It is not completely uncommon for FBI agents and prosecutors to diverge on interview tactics and approach, and the people familiar with the matter said Mills answered investigators’ questions. Mills and her lawyer, Beth Wilkinson, also asked for breaks more than once to confer, the people said.

The questions that were considered off limits had to do with the procedure used to produce emails to the State Department so they could possibly be released publicly, the people said. Mills, an attorney herself, was not supposed to be asked questions about that — and ultimately never was in the recent interview — because it was considered confidential as an example of attorney-client privilege, the people said.
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Cheryl Mills is, I think,  the key to understanding the Clinton e-mail scandal.  Note Hillary's strangely lawyerly denials that she had never viewed over her private server classified material "marked as such".   The question I'd like to ask is whether classified material meant for Hillary was also provided to Mills as her closest aide.   If so, such material would have been lawfully received over Mills' secure e-mail.

It seems to me that it would be an easy matter for Mills to forward classified information to Hillary by converting it to an attachment to her own e-mail to Hillary over the compromised system.   Did Mills in so doing scrub the "classified" label from the attachment,  thereby allowing Hillary to say "truthfully" that she hadn't viewed secret material "marked as such"?

Inquiring minds want to know. 

   
« Last Edit: July 11, 2016, 12:20:57 pm by Jazzhead »
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Cheryl Mills is, I think,  the key to understanding the Clinton e-mail scandal.  Note Hillary's strangely lawyerly denials that she had never viewed over her private server classified material "marked as such".   The question I'd like to ask is whether classified material meant for Hillary was also provided to Mills as her closest aide.   If so, such material would have been lawfully received over Mills' secure e-mail.

It seems to me that it would be an easy matter for Mills to forward classified information to Hillary by converting it to an attachment to her own e-mail to Hillary over the compromised system.   Did Mills in so doing scrub the "classified" label from the attachment,  thereby allowing Hillary to say "truthfully" that she hadn't viewed secret material "marked as such"?

Inquiring minds want to know. 

   

That...and nothing is marked "Classified".  Material is marked with its classification level (Confidential, Secret, Top Secret etc.)

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...prosecutors were somewhat taken aback that their FBI colleague had ventured beyond what was anticipated...

That's interesting.