In a letter sent to the Senate’s security director, Iowa Sen. He then stated the unclassified portions of the documents needed to be made public as soon as possible.
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The fresh round of material may give House Republicans, determined to pursue the issue of whether or not the Democratic presidential nominee committed perjury while under oath, just enough to bring forward a real case.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said in a statement provided to NBC News, “With the exception of the classified emails that had been found on the private server, I can see little legitimate goal to which Congress will put these materials”. While FBI Director James B. Comey has said publicly his investigators concluded neither Clinton nor her aides should face criminal charges because of the server, he has also called her conduct “extremely careless” and suggested those who acted as she did might face severe professional consequences.
[T] he FBI completed its transmission to the State Department of documents recovered by the FBI in the course of its investigation in connection with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary of State. A spokeswoman for the committee says the committee is reviewing documents that are labeled classified.
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. “For that reason, these materials may not be further disseminated or disclosed, in part or in full, without obtaining the FBI’s concurrence”.
The FBI documents are being kept in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, known within the intelligence community as a SCIF. Those without sufficient security clearances can read only redacted versions of the files and are forbidden from making copies or taking notes.
MSBNC’s Stephanie Ruhle asked Democratic Rep. Matt Cartwright on Wednesday how Hillary Clinton did not commit “perjury” in her testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
Clinton did not provide this entire disc of documents to the State in December 2014, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation managed to unearth them.
Judicial Watch has also announced the State Department will hand over to them “all emails sent or received by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that were uncovered by the FBI in its investigation”. “My understanding is that we have not received them”.
Democrats, meanwhile, expressed concern that the Republicans would leak snippets of the classified materials carefully selected to make the presidential candidate look bad without providing a fair account of what happened.
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“The people’s interest would be served in seeing the documents that are unclassified”.
