Federal investigators raise concern over Clinton’s e-mail
A memo signed this week by the inspector general of the intelligence community to members of Congress said the IG’s office had identified “potentially hundreds of classified e-mails” among the 30,000 that Clinton had provided and that are now being processed for public release.
None of the e-mails were marked as classified at the time they were sent or received, but some should have been handled as such and sent on a secure computer network, according to the letter to congressional oversight committees from I. Charles McCullough III.
The inspector general’s office said it raised concerns to FBI counterintelligence officials that “these e-mails exist on at least one private server and thumb drive with classified information and those are not in the government’s possession,” said Andrea Wilson, a spokeswoman for the office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community.
A U.S. official said it was unclear whether classified information was mishandled and that the intelligence community letter to the Justice Department alerting it to the potential problem didn’t suggest any wrongdoing by Clinton, the leading Democratic candidate in the 2016 presidential race.