Abedin Admitted Email Problem Near Time of Reported Hacking Attempt
In August 2010, Huma Abedin admitted she had a problem.
“Sorry. My email is acting up,” the top Clinton aide wrote in response to an email from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The email was among 1,250 pages of emails between Abedin and Clinton released Thursday.
That email carries an unusual significance when set alongside an email chain dated Aug. 16, 2010, that was shown to Abedin by the FBI during its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server.
The Aug. 16, 2010, email contained the subject line, “Re: your yahoo acct.” The contents of the message appeared to be a warning to Abedin that her personal Yahoo account had been hacked.
“Abedin did not recall the email and provided that despite the content of the email she was not sure that her email account had ever been compromised,” the FBI report on its investigation said.
The disclosure comes the same day Fox News reported that two separate sources close to the FBI investigation into Clinton’s email server believe that up to five foreign intelligence agencies were successful in hacking into the server.
Abedin held a top-secret security clearance during her time at the State Department, and was able to access two systems — the State Department’s classified system and a nonclassified computer where she could access both her clintonmail.com and Yahoo accounts, the FBI has reported.
The longtime Clinton aide said printing difficulties on the classified network led her to ship emails to her non-State Department accounts for printing. She has also said that she rarely, if ever, cleaned out her inbox of old emails.
Abedin told investigators she “lost most of her old emails” when the clintonemail.com server was transitioned to a different server after Clinton left the State Department.
“Abedin did not know if the system administrator had archived the mailboxes before the system was taken down,” the FBI report said.
As the FBI moves forward with its investigation, the probe could further shed light on President Barack Obama, according to one news report
Obama may also have a “vested interest in the outcome” of the race, said Catherine Herridge of Fox News, who reported Thursday that Abedin told the FBI she “had to tell the White House” every time Clinton changed her email address to make sure that the electronic device used by the president would accept it.
Obama’s cellphone only accepts communications from “whitelisted” sources, Herridge said.
The development may be “another admission that the White House understood [Clinton] was using this private server for government business, and that the president was OK with it … because they were allowing updates to the email [address] to be made,” Herridge said. (For more from the author of “Abedin Admitted Email Problem Near Time of Reported Hacking Attempt” please click HERE)
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