The meme that launched a veritable fleet of investigations. (credit: Kevin Lamarque / Getty Images)
The Federal Bureau of Investigations issued a terse statement today regarding President Donald J. Trump’s allegation via Twitter that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private mail server had been compromised by the Chinese government. The official statement, issued by an FBI spokesperson in response to an inquiry by NBC News, simply read, “The FBI has not found any evidence the servers were compromised”—referring to the three email servers used by Clinton during and after her tenure at the State Department.
Just after midnight this morning—apparently in response to a Daily Caller article—Trump tweeted:
Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc.), their credibility will be forever gone!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2018
A June report from the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General noted that the FBI had found no evidence of any compromise of Clinton’s mail servers—though full forensic analysis of the servers wasn’t possible, because one (an Apple server) had been disposed of by the time of the investigation. However, as the OIG report recounted, the FBI’s computer forensics agent who was involved in the Clinton email investigation told OIG investigators that:
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