The Federal Bureau of Investigation began investigating Clinton’s email system after government watchdogs found that some of her messages contained classified government secrets last year. FBI Director James Comey undercut some of the main arguments Hillary Clinton has made in defence of her use of an unauthorised private email system while she was US secretary of state. Comey said:The FBI recovered “several thousand” work emails that were not returned to the State Department. Eight of those chains contained Top Secret information, the highest level of government classification; another 36 chains contained Secret information, and eight contained confidential information. Comey said:It would be unlikely to find “direct evidence” of Clinton’s email system being hacked, but the FBI believes “it is possible that hostile actors gained access.” “Hostile actors” also gained access to some people Clinton corresponded with on her email system.

Source: Hindustan Times July 06, 2016 03:22 UTC