Hillary
Clinton's email troubles began when her private address was exposed by a
Romanian hacker. Now the resulting scandal threatens to torpedo her
presidential ambitions.
2008 –
Hillary Clinton acquires a personal email server for her use in running
for president, and has it installed in her Chappaqua, New York home
January 13, 2009 – Internet records show that the domain 'clintonemail.com' was created
January 21, 2009 – Clinton is confirmed by the U.S. Senate as President Obama's secretary of state
February 1, 2013 – Clinton leaves the State Department
March 20, 2013 –
Clinton's private email address, hdr22@clintonemail.com, is made public
when a Romanian hacker named 'Guccifer' (whose real name is Marcel
Lazăr Lehel) hacks into longtime Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal's AOL
email account and leaks images of his inbox – including emails from
Clinton
June 2013 –
Hillary's team shifts control of the email domain to an outside IT
contractor in Denver called Platte River Networks, and sends the
original server hardware to a data center facility in New Jersey, where
it is erased
August 11, 2014 –
Following a congressional subpoena and more than a year of delays, the
State Department hands over a small number of Clinton's private emails,
10 in all, to a House committee investigating the 2012 terror attack on a
State Department compound in Benghazi, Libya – including some emails
from the hdr22@clintonemail.com address
November 2014 –
The Benghazi committee asks the State Department for a larger batch of
Clinton's emails and receives about 300 that relate to the Libya saga,
amounting to 850 printed pages
December 5, 2014 –
Clinton's aides say that in response to a request from the State
Department, they have handed over about 55,000 pages of her work-related
emails, comprising 30,490 messages
February 13, 2015 –
The State Department sends the Benghazi committee another 850 pages of
Clinton's emails, including some from two different accounts on the
private 'clintonemail.com' server
February 27, 2015 –
State Department staffers tell Benghazi committee aides that Clinton
had used her private address exclusively during her tenure at the
agency, and that they don't have any of her emails other than those she
provided voluntarily
March 4, 2015 –
The Associated Press reports that it has traced Clinton's private email
address back to a private server at her Chappaqua, New York home, and
that the server was registered under a fake name
March 10, 2015 – In
a contentious press conference following a speech at the United
Nations, Clinton admits that she deleted more than 30,000 emails that
she says were personal in nature, and says she turned over everything
work-related to the State Department, while insisting that 'I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email; there is no classified material'
March 11, 2015 –
The Associated Press sues the State Department to force the release of
Clinton's emails and other documents that the agency has failed to turn
over following a Freedom Of Information Act request
April 12, 2015 –
Clinton launches her second presidential campaign with an online video
and begins two months of low-key campaigning marked by a lack of
interaction with reporters
May 22, 2015 – The
first 300 of Clinton's emails are made public by the State Department,
revealing a close relationship with Blumenthal in the weeks following
the Benghazi terror attack; one of them has been retroactively
classified by the FBI as 'secret' but Clinton insists it was 'handled
appropriately'
May 27, 2015 – A
federal judge orders the State Department to begin releasing all of
Clinton's emails in installments every 30 days, setting monthly targets
for the agency so the work is completed by January 29, 2016
July 23, 2015 – Charles
McCullough, the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community
tells members of Congress in a letter that a random sampling of 40
Clinton emails turned up four that contained material classified as
secret
July 24, 2015 – Andrea Williams, spokeswoman for the McCulloush, says that the emails 'were classified when they were sent and are classified now.'
July 25, 2015 – During a campaign appearance in Iowa, Clinton modifies her position and tells reporters in Iowa that 'I am confident that I never sent nor received any information that was classifiedat the time it was sent and received'
July 31, 2015 – The
second State Department release of Clinton's emails, more than 1,300 in
all, includes 41 that were marked 'classified' before they were made
public
August 4, 2015 – Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill says in a statement that the candidate 'did not send nor receive any emails that were marked classified at the time'
August 11, 2015 –
McCullough revises his statement to Congress, saying that two of the
four emails in question should have been classified 'top secret' – but
were not marked that way – and contained information from signal
intercepts and keyhole satellite data; he adds that the other two emails
are still being evaluated
August 11, 2015 – The
FBI takes possession of Clinton's server hardware and three thumb
drives in her lawyer's possession, which are said to contain copies of
everything she turned over to the State Department.
August 13, 2015 - Platte River Networks in Denver, suggests that a second server exists and is locate in Hillary's home. The company also suggests that "wiped" emails can be retrieved.
August 14, 2015 - Possible classified emails rises from 4 to 60.
August 16, 2015 - Possible classified emails rises to 300 with a cursory review of 20% of the Hillary emials completed.
August 17, 2015 - More than 81,000 emails discovered in a search for docs related to a 2012 FOIA ignored by Hillary. 17,800 are emails specific to the FOIA request.
August 18, 2015 -
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