SCRIPT: NATS of Comey from Tuesday’s presser VO: THE FBI DIRECTOR, JAMES COMEY, ON TUESDAY, LAID OUT THE FINDINGS OF AN INVESTIGATION INTO HILLARY CLINTON’S USE OF A PRIVATE EMAIL ACCOUNT WHEN SHE WAS SECRETARY OF STATE. SOT // JAMES B. COMEY // ASSOCIATED PRESS Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” VO: MRS. CLINTON WASN’T INDICTED BUT MR. COMEY’S STATEMENTS SEVERELY UNDERCUT SOME CLAIMS BY THE PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE ON SEVERAL POINTS. ——- TEXT ON SCREEN: 1. Classified material in her private email system VO: MRS. CLINTON HAS REPEATEDLY DENIED SENDING OR RECEIVING CLASSIFIED MATERIAL ON HER PERSONAL EMAIL. MR. COMEY REFUTED THAT CLAIM. SOT// MRS. CLINTON // SOURCE (@19:30 mark) I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no classified material. So I’m certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material. <<BUTT TOGETHER >> SOT // COMEY // ASSOCIATED PRESS There is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information. For example, seven email chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received. These chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending emails about those matters and receiving emails from others about the same matters. ——— TEXT ON SCREEN: 2. Security while traveling VO: MRS. CLINTON’S OFFICE MAINTAINED THAT SHE VIEWED CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IN HARD COPY ONLY. AND WHILE ON TRAVEL, THERE WERE “RIGOROUS PROTOCOLS” FOR HER TO RECEIVE THE CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. MR. COMEY REJECTED THAT NOTION. SOT // MR. COMEY: ASSOCIATED PRESS She also used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. ——— TEXT ON SCREEN: 3. Danger from hackers or foreign spies VO: MRS. CLINTON POINTED TO THE FACT THAT THERE WERE MULTIPLE SAFEGUARDS THAT PROTECTED HER EMAILS FROM FOREIGN HACKERS. SOT// MRS. CLINTON // SOURCE (@ 13:45 mark) “The system we used was set up for President Clinton’s office. And it had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service. And there were no security breaches.” <BUTT TOGETHER>> SOT // MR. COMEY // ASSOCIATED PRESS MR. COMEY: “We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account. ——— TEXT ON SCREEN: 4. Failure to turn over all work-related emails VO: CLINTON SAID SHE HANDED OVER ALL HER EMAILS TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT FOR REVIEW, HOWEVER IT WAS REVEALED THAT THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF EMAILS THAT WERE NOT HANDED OVER. SOT// MRS. CLINTON // SOURCE (@ :51 mark) “After I left office, the State Department asked former secretaries of state for our assistance in providing copies of work-related emails from our personal accounts. I responded right away and provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related, which totaled roughly 55,000 printed pages, even though I knew that the State Department already had the vast majority of them. <BUTT TOGETHER> SOT // MR. COMEY // SOURCE?? “The F.B.I. also discovered several thousand work-related emails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014. ———- TEXT ON SCREEN: 5. State Department handling of classified information VO: THE INVESTIGATION ALSO REVEALED LARGER LAX SECURITY CONCERNS REGARDING HOW THE STATE DEPARTMENT HANDLED CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. SOT// MRS. CLINTON // SOURCE?? “A separate, closed system was used by the Department for the sole purpose of handling classified communications which was designed to prevent such information from being transmitted anywhere other than within that system, including to outside email accounts.” SOT // MR. COMEY // SOURCE?? “While not the focus of our investigation, we also developed evidence that the security culture of the State Department in general, and with respect to use of unclassified email systems in particular, was generally lacking in the kind of care for classified information found elsewhere in the government.” END IT