Timeline of Hillary Clinton’s email troubles

The FBI has obtained a warrant to begin reviewing newly discovered messages that may be relevant to the Hillary Clinton email server inquiry

Jan 13, 2009: Registration of Clinton’s private email domain –clintonemail.com

Jan 21: Clinton sworn in as secretary of state

Mar 18: Begins using new email account on private server, set up by IT aide Bryan Pagliano (right)

Feb 2013: Clinton’s tenure assecretary of state ends

Dec 2014: Clinton’s office delivers 30,000 work-related emails to State Department as part of congressional investigation into 2012 attack on U.S.embassy in Benghazi. Almost 32,000 other emails from her time assecretary of state deemed by Clinton to be private and deleted

Mar 3, 2015: New York Times reveals that Clinton used private email server for official business while shewas secretary of state

Mar 5: Clinton writes on Twitter that she has asked State Department to release her emails

July 24: Government inspector generals ask Justice Department to examine if classified information was compromised in Clinton’s use of private email

Aug 4: Washington Post reports that FBI are looking into security of classified emails on Clinton’s server

Sep 10: Pagliano invokes constitutional right against self-incrimination rather than answering questions about Clinton’s email arrangements at congressional hearing

July 5, 2016: FBI director James Comey says Clinton was “extremely careless” in handling classified information while secretary of state but advises no criminal charges

Oct 28: FBI reveals it is reopening inquiry after emails from Clinton aide Huma Abedin (right)were found during unrelated sexting probe of former congressman Anthony Weiner –Abedin’s estranged husband

Source: Wire agencies

Pictures: Associated Press