Investigators are contacting dozens of Hillary Clinton’s former officials who sent private email messages to the then-Secretary of State. The Washington Post reports:
“As many as 130 officials have been contacted in recent weeks by State Department investigators — a list that includes senior officials who reported directly to Clinton as well as others in lower-level jobs whose emails were at some point relayed to her inbox, said current and former State Department officials. Those targeted were notified that emails they sent years ago have been retroactively classified and now constitute potential security violations, according to letters reviewed by The Washington Post.“
Trump officials began contacting the former employees about 18 months ago, according to the Post, but seemed to drop the effort. But then in August, it was revived.
“It is such an obscene abuse of power and time involving so many people for so many years. This has just sucked up people’s lives for years and years.” -former official to the Washington Post
The State Department has, according to the Post, “vigorously denied” any political motivation to the investigation. Clinton, appearing on CBS Sunday Morning, called Trump a “corrupt human tornado.”
Secretary Clinton also told CBS:
“The most outrageously false things were said about me. And unfortunately, enough people believed them. So, this is an effort to sow these falsehoods against [Vice President Joe] Biden. And I don’t care if you’re for the [Democrats] or you’re a Republican, when the president of the United States, who has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, uses his position to in effect extort a foreign government for his political purposes. I think that is very much what the founders worried about in ‘high crimes and misdemeanors.’”