Clinton
tells FBI she could not recall all briefings on preserving documents
By Julia Edwards and
Jonathan Allen | WASHINGTON
Sat Sep 3, 2016
5:10pm EDT
Hillary Clinton,
under questioning by federal investigators over whether she had been
briefed on how to preserve government records as she was about to
leave the State Department, said she had suffered a concussion, was
working part-time and could not recall every briefing she received.
Clinton, the
Democratic Party's presidential candidate, raised the health scare
during her 3-1/2-hour interview with the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and Justice Department prosecutors on July 2, according
to an FBI summary released on Friday.
Besides the 11-page
interview summary, the FBI also released other details of its
investigation into her use of an unauthorized private email system
while running the State Department, in which it concluded she
mishandled classified information but not in a way that warranted a
criminal prosecution.
Clinton told
investigators she could not recall getting any briefings on how to
handle classified information or comply with laws governing the
preservation of federal records, the summary of her interview shows.
"However, in
December of 2012, Clinton suffered a concussion and then around the
New Year had a blood clot," the FBI's summary said. "Based
on her doctor's advice, she could only work at State for a few hours
a day and could not recall every briefing she received."
A Clinton campaign
aide said Clinton only referenced her concussion to explain she was
not at work but for a few hours a day at that time, not that she did
not remember things from that period.
The concussion was
widely reported then, and Republicans have since used it to attack
the 68-year-old candidate's health in a way her staff have said is
unfounded.
The FBI report,
which does not quote Clinton directly, is ambiguous about whether it
was her concussion that affected her ability to recall briefings.
The FBI declined to
provide further comment on the report.
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