The FBI report released Friday noted that Sidney Blumenthal "is a longtime friend" of Hillary Clinton, and “Clinton sometimes read and forwarded the information to appropriate personnel, but in other instances did not have the time to read his email.” | AP Photo What Clinton told the FBI about her emails from Sid Blumenthal

Sidney Blumenthal was a “prodigious writer,” Hillary Clinton told the FBI earlier this summer, adding that her longtime confidant “was sometimes accurate and sometimes not.”

The FBI on Friday released documents from its July 2 interview with Clinton over the former secretary of state’s use of a private email server during her tenure as head of the State Department.


“Sidney Blumenthal is a longtime friend of Clinton who frequently sent information he thought would be useful,” the FBI said in its report. “Clinton sometimes read and forwarded the information to appropriate personnel, but in other instances did not have the time to read his email.”

Of one occasion from Jan. 31, 2011, with a subject line that indicates it included a memo on intelligence regarding Egypt, Clinton told the FBI that someone — whose name is redacted in the report — was a retired CIA officer and expressed that “she had no concerns regarding the sources of the memos being classified.”

“Clinton viewed the content as journalistic because Blumenthal did not have a clearance and was not in government at that time. Clinton did not request the memos, but commented Blumenthal is a prodigious writer whose information was sometimes accurate and sometimes not,” the report said.

In a separate instance from June 24, 2012, Clinton recalled to the FBI, “it was a confusing time in Egypt and State was trying to obtain all of the intelligence it could on Egypt.”

“However,” the report notes, “she had no concerns regarding the classification of the email.”