Roughly 1,000 emails between
Hillary Clinton and Gen. David Petraeus were thought to be missing from the
30,000 emails provided by Clinton's team to the State Department in December
2014, According to the newly released FBI investigative files. Additional documents
Obtained through a federal lawsuit by Judicial Watch show Clinton had directed
Petraeus to send her emails at her personal address, which was used for all
government work during her tenure as secretary of state.
In a heavily redacted FBI
interview summary from Aug. 17, 2015, a State Department employee from the
Office of Information and Programs and Services (IPS), the which handles
Freedom of Information Act requests, Discussed how Petraeus' records apparently
were not Among the work-related emails provided by the former secretary's team.
"CENTCOM records shows
Approximately 1,000 work-related emails between Clinton's personal email and
General David Petraeus, former Commander of CENTCOM and former Director of the
CIA," said the employee, Whose name is redacted, According to the summary.
"Most of Reviews those 1,000 emails were not Believed to be included in
the 30,000 emails that IPS was reviewing. Out of the 30,000 emails, IPS only
had a few emails from or related to Petraeus as well as a few related to Leon
Panetta, former Secretary of Defense. "
The same employee Reported
on a January 2015 status briefing about the emails given by State Department
senior official Patrick Kennedy who is now at the center of "quid pro
quo" allegations - that he offered to help the FBI get more slots for
agencies overseas in exchange for downgrading an email to unclassified. The FBI
and State now emphasize the deal never happened.
"KENNEDY and [redacted]
were each Provided with two binders full of emails examples of documents
[redacted] Believed were possibly classified. [Redacted] Returned her binders
to [redacted] but KENNEDY Decided to keep his binders Following the brief.
[Redacted] was not aware of anyone in IPS or at STATE who received the rules or
parameters of the CLINTON team and / or WILLIAMS & Connolly used to
segregate Clinton's personal and office work emails. "
As Previously Reported by
Fox News, there are still two missing "bankers boxes" of emails that
can not be accounted for by Hillary Clinton's legal team Williams &
Connolly.
Clinton later maintained
during congressional testimony that her team read every email, but FBI Director
James Comey later said that was not true and only broad search terms were used.
In addition, new emails
Obtained through an ongoing federal lawsuit by Judicial Watch show that on Jan.
10, 2009, Clinton of toll Petraeus - who was then CENTCOM commander - to use
her personal address on a BlackBerry account. "If there is ever anything
you need or want me to know, pls use this personal email address. All the best,
Hillary," she wrote.
One of the most intriguing
and highly redacted documents released by the FBI is a witness interview with a
CIA agent on June 10, 2016. The names of the FBI agents and the CIA agent and
attorney are all redacted, but it is clear they were reviewing "Top
Secret" emails too damaging to national security to release under any
circumstances.
According to page 66,
"After reviewing the email, [redacted] exclaimed [redacted] is an idiot.
[Redacted] Believed he further explained the email was problematic. "The
CIA was apparently referring to the writer of the email, adding"
[redacted] Expressed his opinion that denial was not very careful. "
Fox News estimates at least
95 percent of the CIA agent's three-page interview was blacked out.
"[Redacted] did not have any direct knowledge of DoS Officials using
unclassified or 'barely classified' channels [redacted] but he suspected
it," the document says. The CIA statement concluded as follows:
"[redacted] Expressed his opinion that DoS (Department of State) was not
very careful [redacted]. "
The CIA used the B (1) FOIA
redaction 20 times. According to Freedom of Information Act exemptions,
redactions Reviews These can include information about national defense,
foreign policy, U.S. national security, terrorism and transnational sources or
methods, or cryptology.
B (3) was used 25 times.
This category redaction category FOIA disclosure by statute prevents the which
includes information about arms export control, immigration and Iran.
B (7) was cited for
redactions three times. This category includes protected FOIA information about
investigation techniques and personal privacy.
It is of note that this CIA
agent was interviewed on June 10, just three weeks before Comey held his
controversial press conference declaring that Clinton was not criminal but
"extremely careless" in her handling of classified materials the
which included SAP content known as Special Access Programs or 'above top
secret.'
State Department
Spokesperson John Kirby of toll Fox News:
"We can not speculate
about records that DOD may have. Nor can we verify the veracity of rumors. We
can only speak to the records in our possession. As we Disclosed last
September, the State Department received from the Department of Defense and the
State Inspector General Several copies of a single email chain between former
Secretary Clinton and then-Commander of US Central Command David Petraeus
roomates were not Previously in the possession of the Department. Reviews These
emails are now in our possession and will be subject to Freedom of Information
Act requests. Beyond that, our focus is on processing the material turned over
by the FBI to comply with FOIA requests. "
Catherine Herridge is an
award-winning Chief Intelligence correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC) based
in Washington, D.C. She covers intelligence, the Justice Department and the
Department of Homeland Security. Herridge joined FNC in 1996 as a London-based
correspondent.
Pamela K. Browne is Senior
Executive Producer at the FOX News Channel (FNC) and is Director of the
Long-Form Series and Specials. Her journalism has been Recognized with Several
awards. Browne first joined FOX in 1997 to launch the news magazine "Fox
Files" and later, "War Stories."
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