FBI Clinton-Server Interview
This timeline was constructed from FBI interview notes, taken from publically available files on
https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton. The files used are named 1353814-0 – LHM.PDF and
1353814-0 – HRC -V2.PDF, respectively. The timeline below takes notes from both files, and
superscript marks at the start of each paragraph show which file the event comes from.
Timeline of Events
N.D., 2007
1
Justin Cooper, at the time an aide to Bill Clinton, purchased an Apple OS X server for the sole
purpose of hosting e-mail services for Bill Clinton’s staff. Clinton’s aides decided to maintain
physical control of the server, located in the basement of the Clinton residence in Chappaqua,
New York.
June, 2008
1
An Apple representative installed the Apple OS X
12
server in the basement of the Clinton
residence in Chappaqua, New York. FBI was unable to obtain records to verify installation. At
the time of installation, Justin Cooper was the only one with administrative access to the server.
However, the Clinton family and their Chappaqua staff had physical access to the server. The
server initially hosted the domains presidentclinton.com and wjcoffice.com
3
, which were used by
Bill Clinton’s staff.
Prior January 21, 2009
1
Hillary Clinton used a personal Blackberry device with service from Cingular Wireless and later
AT&T Wireless to access her e-mail accounts. HRC used the email address
[email protected] and then changed to [email protected]. At some point,
Hillary Clinton decided to stop using her AT&T email address and began using a new private
domain, clintonemail.com, to host email service on the Apple Server. As a “matter of
convenience”, her clintonemail.com account was moved to an email system maintained by Bill
Clinton’s aides.
January 13, 2009
1
Justin Cooper was listed as the point of contact when the domain clintonemail.com was
registered to domain services company Network Solutions on January 13, 2009. HRC
transitioned to [email protected] approximately mid-to-late January 2009. The FBI did
1 Consisted of an Apple Power Macintosh G4 or G5 tower and an HP Printer.
2 The Apple Server was used from June 2008 – March 2009.
3 Primarily a legacy domain used for forwarded email.