The hits keep coming.
The Obama administration’s top negotiator on the Iran nuclear deal — and a candidate for secretary of state in a Hillary Clinton administration — told the FBI that hacking attempts were made on her personal email account several years ago during a negotiation session.
The bombshell revelation comes from FBI notes taken during a Feb. 3 interview with a former State Department official. Though the official’s name and sex are redacted throughout the notes — which were compiled as part of the Clinton email investigation — other clues in the document strongly suggest that it is Wendy Sherman.
Sherman served as deputy secretary of state under Clinton — making her #3 at the agency — and as under secretary of state for political affairs. In that capacity, she served as chief negotiator on the Iran nuclear deal.
A close associate of Clinton’s, Sherman’s name has been floated as Clinton’s secretary of state should the former first lady be elected president.
According to the FBI’s notes, Sherman, who is now an adviser at the international consulting firm Albright Stonebridge, told investigators during her interview that she used her Gmail account for government business, often while traveling.
It “was not uncommon for [her] to have to use [her] personal Gmail account to communicate while on travel, because there were often times [she] could not access her DoS unclassified account,” the report reads.
She said that she was not aware of any specific instances where she was notified of a potential hack of her State Department or personal email accounts or those of other State employees.
“However, [Sherman] explained [she] was sure people tried to hack into [her] personal email account and the accounts of [her] team approximately two years ago during [redacted] in the Iran negotiations.”