“This is an extraordinarily rare step that was sought exclusively by Republicans for the purposes of further second-guessing the career professionals at the FBI”, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement.
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Both of those statements have since been contradicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – which conducted an exhaustive investigation into Clinton’s extra-legal email server.
The FBI also sent a letter to lawmakers to present its rationale for refusing charge Clinton in the case. The House Oversight Committee also received documents related to the scandal, in order to be reviewed. “Republicans have pointed to three email chains forwarded to Clinton that contained paragraphs marked “(C)”, signifying they contained classified information, as evidence she lied.
The issue of Clinton’s mishandling of classified information on an unsecured private server has dogged her campaign for more than a year, though Donald Trump’s fatally flawed candidacy has given her a solid lead in the polls. “Committee staff is now reviewing the information that is classified secret”.
Roll Coll reported a second example was Clinton’s claim her attorneys reviewed every single email to identify those related to work.
Addressing House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and the committee’s ranking Democratic member, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, a letter from FBI acting Assistant Director Jason V. Herring reiterated FBI Director James Comey’s statement.
Clinton said previous year that she turned over 55,000 pages of emails, but said she deleted thousands more she and her lawyers deemed as personal.
The FBI’s investigation in Clinton’s private email server was concluded over a month ago.
House Republicans on Monday outlined their perjury case against Hillary Clinton in a letter to the U.S. attorney for Washington, DC, naming specific inconsistencies in her public statements while under oath before Congress.
The FBI last month closed its yearlong probe into whether Clinton and her aides mishandled sensitive information that flowed through a private email server located in the basement of her NY home.
It’s unclear what will be barred from release and what non-classified portions may be leaked once congressional staff get to dive into them.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the House Intelligence Committee’s ranking Democrat, has argued against the Federal Bureau of Investigation release, saying that the Republican request amounted to an “abuse of the congressional investigative process”. “There are no further details at this time”, the aide said.
Clinton has repeatedly stated that she believes that the 55,000 pages of documents she turned over to the State Department in December 2014 included all of her work-related emails.
Steven Pomerantz told Fox, “Since the director (Comey) already established what she (Clinton) said and the investigation is complete, it would be a relatively simple matter to make a decision about perjury… given the history of this, it’s hard to say – it would seem to me a matter of weeks not months in this case”.
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The notes, to be sent on Tuesday, will not be released to the public.
