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U.S. Departm ent of Justice

Federal Burea u of Investigat ion

This report recounts the information collected in this investigation. It is not intended to address potential inconsistencies in, or the

validity of, the information related herein.

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(U//FOUO) On July 10, 2015, the Federal B ureau of Investigation (FBI) initiated a full

investigation b ased upon a referral received from the US Intelligence C ommunity Ins pector

General (ICIG), submitted in accordance wit h Section 811(c) of the Inte lligence Autho rization

Act of 1995 and dated July 6, 2015, regard ing the potential unauthorize d transmission and

storage of classi fied informatio n on the personal e-mail server of former Secretary of State

Hillary Clinto n (Clinton ).3 The FBI's inve stigation focus ed on determ ining whether classified

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statutes and whe ther classified information wa s compromis ed by unauthor ized individuals, to

include foreign governments or intelligence services, via cyber intrusion or other means.

(U//FOU 9) In fu rtherance o f its investigation, the FBI acq uired compute r equipment an d mobile

devices, to incl ude equipmen t associated wit h two separate e-mail serve r systems used by

Clinton, and f orensically revi ewed the items to recover re levant evidence. In response to FBI

determination process admin istered by the US Departmen t of State (State) in connection with

Freedom o f Information Ac t (FOIA) litiga tion identified approximately 2,000 additiona l e-mails

currently classi fied CONFID ENTIAL and 1 e-mail curren tly classified SECRET, which FBI

investigation determined were transmitted and stored on at least two o f Clinton 's personal server

systems.d

(U//FOUO) The FBI's investigation and forensic analysis did n ot find evidence confirming th at

Clinton 's e-mail ac counts or mobile devices were compromised b y cyber means. However,

investigative l imitations, in cluding the F BI's ina bility to obtain all mobile d evices and variou s

computer comp onents associa ted with Cli nton's p ersonal e-mail systems, preve nted the FBI from

conclusively d etermining whe ther the classi fied informatio n transmitted and stored on Clinton' s

(U//FO U0) In or around 2007, Justin Cooper, at the time an aide to forme r President Will iam

Jefferson Cl inton (Presiden t Clinton), purc hased an Appl e OS X serve r (Apple Server) for the

sole purpose o f hosting e-mail services for Pr esident Cli nton's staff.1,2 Due to concern over

ensuring e-mail reliability and a desire to segregate e-mail for President Clinton' s various p ost

presidency endeavors, Presi dent Clint on's aides decided to ma intain physical control of the

Apple Server in the Clinton residence in C happaqua, New York (Chap paqua resid ence).3,4,5

According to Cooper, in or around June 2008, a representa tive from Ap ple installed th e Apple

b (U//FQUO) The number of classified e-mail chains identified may change as classification determination responses continue to

be returned to the FBI.

c (U//F0U6 ) For the purposes of the FBI's investigation, an “e-mail chain” is defined as a set of e-mail responses having the

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Server6 in the basement o f the Chappaqu a residence .6,7 The FBI was unable to obtain records

from Cooper or Apple to veri fy the installation. At the time, Cooper was the only indivi dual with

administrative access to the A pple Server; ho wever, the Clinton family and their Chap paqua

residence s taff had physical access to the A pple Serv er.8,9 The Apple Server i nitially hosted the

domains presid entclinton.com and wicoffice.co m. which we re used by Pr esident Cli nton's

(U//F0U 8 ) Prior to January 21, 2009, when she was sworn in as the US Secretary of State,

Clinton used a personally-acq uired BlackBe rry device with service initial ly from Cing ular

[email protected] tt.blackb erry.net. 14,15 According to Cooper , in January 2009, Clinton decided to stop

using her h rl [email protected] rry.net e-mail address and inst ead began usin g a new private domain,

clintonemail.com. to host e-m ail service on the Apple Server.16 Clinton stated to the FB I that she

directed aides, in or around J anuary 2009, to create the cl intonemail.com account, and as a

matter of convenience her clintonemail.com account was moved to an e-mail system maintained

by President Clinton 's aide s.17 While Coope r could not sp ecifically recall r egistering the domain,

Cooper was lis ted as the poin t of contact fo r clintonemail.co m when the domain was reg istered

with a doma in registration services compan y, Network Solutions, on January 13, 2 009.18,19

Clinton used h er att.blackber ry.net e-mail account as her p rimary e-mail address until

approximately mid-to-late Ja nuary 2009 whe n she transitio ned to her new ly created

[email protected] tonemail.com account.20,21 The FBI did not recover any information indicating that

administration of the new server system. ’ ’ ’ Pag liano was in th e process o f liquidating the

computer equ ipment from C linton's presidential campaign when Cooper conta cted Pagliano

about using some of the ca mpaign's computer e quipment to rep lace the existin g Apple Ser ver at

Clinton 's Chappaqu a residence .28,29 Pagliano was una ware the se rver would be us ed by Clinton

at the time he w as building the server system; rather, he bel ieved the se rver would be us ed by

President C linton's sta ff30 Clinton told the FBI th at at some po int she became aware there wa s a

server in the base ment of her Chappaqua res idence.31 However, she was una ware of the

transition from the Apple Server managed by Cooper to another serv er built by Paglia no and

therefore, was not involved in the transitio n decision .32

B. (U/7F0fJG) Sec ond E-mail Server: March 20 09 - June 2013

e (U//[email protected]) The Apple Server consisted of an Apple Power Macintosh G4 or G5 tower and an HP printer.

f (U//TOUO) Investigation determined various employees of President Clinton maintained e-mail accounts using the

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