Republican and Democratic spokesmen for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence confirmed that that committee had also received the Clinton files.
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The former State chief has repeatedly denied handling classified information with her private email account, but subsequent revelations have at the very least cast some doubt over those claims.
Part of the investigation dealt with whether foreign adversaries tried to hack Clinton’s private email system, Comey said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation closed its yearlong probe last month into whether Clinton and her aides mishandled sensitive information that flowed through the private email server located in the basement of her NY home.
FBI Director Comey did a great disservice to the public usurping the responsibility of the Attorney General, and scolding Clinton while doing what no director has done before: recommending, in public, no prosecution.
The FBI’s investigation found three emails out of more than 30,000 included “portion markers”, but lacked proper classification headings, and 110 emails that included material that was considered classified at the time but was not marked as such.
The FBI has handed over a “number of documents” to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, a spokesman said Tuesday afternoon.
The material is designated classified so it will need to be reviewed by congressional officials in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF.
The announcement comes as a conservative group announced they would receive copies of thousands of previously undisclosed work-related emails sent or received by former Secretary Hillary Clinton.
Another source familiar with the release described the materials as interview notes of Clinton and others and emails connected to the personal server Clinton used during her tenure as secretary of state to conduct government business.
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.
Updated on August 16, 2016: This article has been updated with a statement from Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon.
“There’s some feeling that maybe there was something tawdry surrounding the Clinton Foundation and how it raised money and how people involved with it discharged themselves while Clinton was secretary of state”, Gerstein said.
“The history of the partisan Benghazi investigation made it clear that any information that can be leaked by the majority to the prejudice of Secretary Clinton, will be leaked”, Schiff said.
It’s being shared with Congress “with the expectation it will not be disseminated or disclosed without FBI concurrence”, the bureau said in a statement.
FBI director James Comey released a statement last month detailing the bureau’s investigation of “emailgate”, in which he stated the FBI, “did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues meant to violate laws”.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump routinely attacks Clinton over her email use.
“The FBI already determined unanimously that there is insufficient evidence of criminal wrongdoing”, Cummings said in a statement. “Republicans are now investigating the investigator in a desperate attempt to resuscitate this issue, keep it in the headlines, and distract from Donald Trump’s sagging poll numbers”.
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At the State Department, where Clinton once served, spokesman Mark Toner told reporters that the department had “been provided emails the Federal Bureau of Investigation intends to give to Congress and we’ve reviewed them”.
