Hillary Clinton questioned by FBI on emails

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US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been questioned by the FBI over her use of emails while she was secretary of state, her campaign says.

A spokesperson said it was a voluntary interview.

The FBI is investigating Mrs Clinton and her aides over whether they mishandled classified information on a private email server she used while serving as secretary of state.

Mrs Clinton denies handling classified information in her private emails.

She said she set up the email address for reasons of convenience, because it was easier to do everything from her Blackberry than to have several phones or tablets.

However, a state department inquiry accused her and other former US secretaries of state of poorly managing email security.

The justice department is now seeking to establish whether this constitutes a criminal offence.

A bit of a gift to Trump: Laura Bicker, BBC, Washington:

This has been a drip-drip drip feed for Mrs Clinton"s opponents to criticise her.

Republicans could say, "Look, hang on a second, are you trustworthy? Because you"ve been using what have been retrospectively classified documents on your home email server."

Secretary of state information could be protected on the work server, so they"re saying that she put things at risk.

That has given a bit of a gift to Donald Trump who has nicknamed her Crooked Hillary.

This interview was voluntary and we expected it to come. Her staff have all given their own testimony and the investigation is coming to a conclusion now, nearly a year after this first emerged.

But it"s all happening just before the Democratic Party convention.

On Friday, the US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she would accept the findings of the FBI and prosecutors, when deciding whether to charge Mrs Clinton.

The day before, it was revealed that Ms Lynch had met the former president, Mrs Clinton"s husband Bill, in what she described as a "social" meeting but which she admitted would "cast a shadow" over the way her role in the case would be perceived.

Mrs Clinton is the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party and party members are expected to confirm the nomination at a convention at the end of July.

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