The FBI said Wednesday that it has no evidence Hillary Clinton’s private email server was compromised even though President Donald Trump tweeted a news report that alleged the Chinese had hacked it.
Trump tweeted Tuesday evening about a report in the conservative Daily Caller that said a Chinese-owned company operating in the Washington area had hacked the server Clinton had used as secretary of state and obtained nearly all of her emails.
Trump’s tweet stated in part: “What are the odds that the FBI and DOJ are right on top of this? Actually, a very big story. Much classified information!”
FBI and Justice Department officials have said publicly that there was no evidence Clinton’s server was hacked by a foreign power. Former FBI Director James Comey said at a July 2016 news conference that the FBI did not find direct evidence that the sever had been successfully hacked though he also acknowledged that, “given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved,” it would have been unlikely for the bureau to find such direct evidence.
A June report from the Justice Department’s inspector general on the FBI’s handling of the Clinton investigation said FBI specialists did not find evidence that the server had been hacked, with one forensics agent saying he felt “fairly confident that there wasn’t an intrusion.”
An FBI official said Wednesday after the Daily Caller story and Trump tweet that the “FBI has not found any evidence the servers were compromised.”
The White House did not immediately comment on the FBI’s statement.
(AP)
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I voted (reluctantly) for Hillary. I believe there are grounds for locking her up. But my belief is, thankfully, not sufficient to lock up anybody. The Trump administration has been in office for 18+ months and has not found any evidence that would support locking her up. So would the Trump supporters who chant “lock her up” please change their chant to “___________ or get off the pot.” (And I am not referring to cannabis.)
This dumb degenerate President gets most of his information from FOX, and without question believes any idiotic conspiracy theory they peddle.
Trump: pick your choice
1) fake news
2) blame obama
Trumpland couldnt care less about evidence. They have alternative evidence. They reside in the world of “alternative facts” where “truth isn’t truth” and you are told to “not believe what you see” and every conspiracy theory promoted by the alt-right is accepted as fact. Welcome to the dystopian world of Drumpf and his minions of delusional defenders.
The president will continue to manufacture fake news as long as the pressure is on him. Seems his new NAFTA is working out as well as his anti nuke agreement.
rabbisai is there any chance the fbi would say something inaccurate to protect hillary. i think we have precedent for that ayin the new book “russian hoax” or 710 WOR
The FBI was NOT THE SOURCE. It came from the Intelligence Community Inspector General. Therefore, it is IRRELEVANT what the FBI has to say on the matter!
To lbj: You couldn’t have said it better?