US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the media reports on Chinese-owned company obtaining nearly all emails of former State Secretary Hillary Clinton are a very big story as the correspondence contained classified information.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 29th August, 2018) US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the media reports on Chinese-owned company obtaining nearly all emails of former State Secretary Hillary Clinton are a very big story as the correspondence contained classified information.
On Tuesday, the Daily Caller media outlet reported, citing a former intelligence official and a government staff official, both of whom were briefed on findings of the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), that the Chinese-owned company in the Washington, DC area was able to obtain nearly all of Clinton's emails by using software embedded in her private server. The sources declined to name the company, but said the firm worked for the Chinese government, according to the media outlet.
Report just out: 'China hacked Hillary Clinton's private Email Server.' Are they sure it wasn't Russia (just kidding!)? What are the odds that the FBI and DOJ [Justice Department] are right on top of this? Actually, a very big story. Much classified information! Trump wrote on Twitter.
The US president went on to call on the FBI and the Justice Department to launch investigation into the incident.
Hillary Clinton's Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc.), their credibility will be forever gone! Trump added.
Clinton, the Democratic candidate who ran against Trump in the 2016 election, used a private server and email accounts for official business during her tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 contrary to US regulations and established practice.
The FBI investigated Clinton on the matter and concluded that she did not intend to violate US laws. In closing the investigation in July 2015, the FBI recommended that no criminal charges be filed against Clinton. However, the FBI acknowledged that the former official was "extremely careless" in handling her email communications and that she passed secret and confidential emails on numerous occasions.
The bureau briefly reopened the investigation prior to the 2016 US presidential election due to newly discovered emails that may had been be pertinent to the case, but then closed the second probe, saying it stood by its earlier conclusion not to criminally prosecute Clinton.
