The FBI released the notes it had compiled during the course of its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State on Friday, nearly two months after it determined that it wouldn’t pursue criminal charges against the presidential candidate.

Overall, the documents corroborated much of what FBI Director James Comey said about the investigation during congressional hearings and in a press conference when the decision not to press charges against Clinton was announced. (If you’d like a refresher, we detailed that announcement here).

But there were new details that came out of the report, as it contained notes from the interviews that the FBI carried out with Clinton and others.

Interviews

According to CNN, Clinton told the FBI that she “could not recall any briefing or training by State related to the retention of federal records or handling classified information.” Clinton told agents that she didn’t “recall” or “remember” at least 39 times, some of which were in response to questions about the process for handling classified information, related training, or what was discussed in particular emails.

The interviews also shed light on what led to the deletion of her private email server’s contents. Cheryl Mills, a key Clinton adviser, had relayed that Clinton wanted her emails deleted after 60 days, and asked that the company maintaining the server update her account to that effect.

But a worker failed to follow through with that request, and when the New York Times revealed on March 2 that Clinton had used a private server they had an “oh s***” moment, deleted the emails, and used the now-infamous software known as BleachBit to erase the remnants of the files. This occurred between March 25-31, and after the House Benghazi Committee filed a preservation order on March 3.

This is crazy. 3 weeks after NYT publish Clinton email server story, there was a big wipe of her emails conducted pic.twitter.com/tlO0KJWYgz — Chris Cillizza (@TheFix) September 2, 2016

Classified Materials

When asked about emails that were marked with a © to denote that the information contained in them was classified, Clinton told the FBI that she “did not know” what the marking meant and “could only speculate it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order.”

A 2011 email in which Clinton asked an aide to send her talking points was also discussed. The aide had informed her that the document couldn’t be sent through a secure fax, so Clinton replied that he should “turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure.” During her talk with the FBI, Clinton explained that she thought “nonpaper” referred to a way of unofficially conveying the U.S. government’s stance, and that she was asking for unclassified talking points rather than than the removal of classification markings.

Hacking

The report reiterated the FBI’s earlier claim that it had found no evidence that Clinton’s email server had been hacked, but it did note that hackers had breached the accounts of people with whom Clinton had corresponded with over email. As a result, hackers did have access to Clinton’s email correspondence with those who’d been hacked.

On the FBI’s determination of whether Clinton’s private email server was hacked… pic.twitter.com/kxzdT4TZKv — Matt Zapotosky (@mattzap) September 2, 2016

Additionally, FBI investigators were unable to examine the 13 mobile devices Clinton used while she was Secretary of State and other computers or components, so it wasn’t able to determine if those had been compromised.

Tell your reps

Does Congress need to prohibit Cabinet secretaries from using private email servers or personal electronic devices for work?

— Eric Revell

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