For over a year, the country has watched the Hillary Clinton email scandal unfold piece by piece. While the public has talked about the FBI investigation into Clinton’s unusual email arrangement, the former secretary of state prefers a more innocuous label: "security review."
When Clinton worked as secretary of state, she used a private email server based out of her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., for official business. This prompted speculation that Clinton used the system to dodge public records request; it also prompted an FBI investigation into whether Clinton mishandled classified information. Clinton has denied that she sent or received any information that was "marked" classified.
The State Department has since disclosed that there were at least 2,079 emails that contained classified material on Clinton's server. State Department officials have said that some of this information was retroactively upgraded to classified, which means the information was not classified during Clinton's time as secretary of state. However, some of the information transmitted through Clinton's server was classified at the time it was sent or received. Whether the emails were marked or not, Clinton signed a nondisclosure agreement that outlined her responsibilities with classified material when she became secretary of state. The agreement stated that it was Clinton's responsibility to know if classified material was in her possession, marked or not.
In January, the State Department withheld 22 emails from being released because they contained top secret information. An inspector general sent a letter to lawmakers that stated Clinton's server contained information that was above the top secret level of classification.
Clinton's has tried to minimize these findings, claiming that the discovery of classified material by the intelligence community is part of an interagency dispute about whether the information should remain classified.
The Justice Department has granted immunity to Bryan Pagliano, the former State Department staffer that maintained the private server. Clinton maintains her innocence of any wrongdoing and has downplayed the investigations into her server.
President Obama has weighed in on the controversy, calling it a "legitimate issue."