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Senate investigators find no evidence China hacked Clinton server
A long-running Republican-led investigation into the handling of classified information on Hillary Clinton’s private email server did not find any evidence that China had successfully hacked the former secretary of state, confirming the findings of the FBI, according to a memo released by two senior senators this week.
The findings, from Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, respectively, should help put to rest allegations that resurfaced after a report in a conservative news outlet last year that was later perpetuated online by President Donald Trump.
“Neither the committees nor the FBI were able to confirm whether an intrusion into the server occurred,” Grassley and Johnson said in a news release Wednesday.
Concerns of an intrusion by China into the server were first raised by two officials from the Intelligence Community Inspector General’s Office, which helped initiate the original review of Clinton’s email practices as secretary of state that was later referred to the FBI, according to the memo. Both officials were interviewed by the Senate investigators as part of their probe.
One of the officials told Senate investigators that Peter Strzok, a senior FBI official on the Clinton investigation who was fired last year after the release of text messages he’d sent that were critical of Trump, was “aloof and dismissive” when presented with information about the potential Chinese hack.
After its own investigation, the FBI concluded in 2016 that there was no “direct evidence” that the server had been successfully hacked, though former FBI Director James Comey conceded that “given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence.”
Separately, the officials from the Intelligence Community Inspector General’s Office also told Senate investigators that they had witnessed efforts by senior State Department officials to try to avoid labeling certain emails as classified as part of the review.
The Senate investigation into the Clinton server is continuing and has shifted its focus toward a classified appendix of a report from the Department of Justice Inspector General’s Office scrutinizing the FBI’s investigation that was released last year, according to the memo. Investigators are interested in the decision by the FBI to not seek access to “certain highly classified information potentially relevant to the investigation” and have written to the Justice Department with questions, they said in the memo.
By: NBC Palm Springs
August 16, 2019
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