Hillary Clinton Hands Over Private Email Server to Justice Department

— — Hillary Clinton has turned over her personal e mail server to the Department of Justice, the Clinton marketing campaign confirmed to ABC News.

Barbara Wells, a lawyer for Platte River Networks, the know-how firm that has managed Clinton’s e mail server since 2013, mentioned the corporate turned the server over to the FBI Wednesday afternoon at a New Jersey facility.

She mentioned the server was handed over voluntarily, underneath an settlement between Platte River and Clinton’s presidential marketing campaign, with no subpoena.

The handing over Clinton’s private server Wednesday was first reported by the Washington Post.

Clinton’s lawyer had beforehand turned over a thumb drive containing copies of emails submitted to the State Department.

Clinton ordered her marketing campaign to flip the server and thumb drive over to the Justice Department amid a federal investigation into the safety of the server and whether or not there was labeled data within the emails from the personal account she used whereas serving as secretary of state.

On Tuesday, the Intelligence Community’s inspector common notified senior members of Congress that two emails randomly sampled from Clinton’s server contained delicate data that was later given a “Top Secret” classification, whereas two others contained labeled data on the time they had been despatched. The emails with data subsequently labeled as “Top Secret” had been forwarded to Clinton, in accordance to the State Department.

Clinton has maintained that she by no means used her personal account for labeled data.

The State Department is within the strategy of reviewing and releasing some 30,000 emails that had been despatched throughout Clinton’s time on the State Department.

Republicans, who for months have known as on Clinton to flip the server over to an impartial third get together for overview, welcomed the information with skepticism.

“It’s a welcome growth, however it’s arduous to imagine that the Clinton personal server and the thumb drives … have only in the near past been turned over to the authorities,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote in an announcement. “That’s a very long time for prime secret labeled data to be held by an unauthorized particular person outdoors of an permitted, safe authorities facility.”

As the House Select Benghazi Committee continues its investigation into the 2012 compound assault and prepares for Clinton’s Oct. 22 testimony, Grassley and different Republican leaders have expanded inquiries into the securing of labeled data on Clinton’s e mail server.

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has written to the president of Platte River, requesting extra details about safety procedures and communications between the corporate and the State Department concerning Clinton’s server. He’s additionally requested for the corporate to present the committee with a staff-level briefing on the corporate’s work with Clinton’s server.

Clinton confidante Huma Abedin can also be coming underneath scrutiny, after Clinton revealed earlier this week that Abedin additionally saved a personal e mail handle on her residence server. Clinton’s prime aide is cooperating with congressional inquiries and requests from federal judges for official State Department information and emails, in accordance to her lawyer, and plans to produce all requested information by the top of August.