The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee wants his staffers to have access to files from the FBI’s investigation into Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonEx-GM CEO: I’ve always voted Republican until now Election reveals Paul Ryan to be worst speaker in US history Dem Senate candidate knocks Rubio for Trump support MORE’s private email setup, a push that could expand the number of people able to view the documents.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, a Republican, said in a statement on Tuesday an initial review of the material showed most of it was marked unclassified.
On Capitol Hill last month, FBI Director James Comey testified that Clinton did not lie to the FBI during her interview with investigators. The staffers spoke on condition of anonymity because they had not been authorized to speak publicly about the security precautions.
The FBI handed over to the committee a heavily redacted investigation summary, as well as the agents’ notes, Fox News confirmed.
“The FBI conducted this investigation, as it does all investigations, in a competent, honest and independent way”, wrote Jason Herring, the FBI’s liaison with Congress, in the letter.
The FBI said in a statement that it had made a decision to turn over the documents to several congressional oversight committees to fulfill its commitment to make the investigation of Clinton’s email practices transparent.
The Clinton campaign has called for the notes to become public.
The FBI on Tuesday provided Congress portions of its file from the agency’s yearlong investigation into whether then-Secretary of State Clinton and her top aides mishandled classified information that flowed through a private email server located in the basement of her NY home.
“These materials are nonpublic and contain classified and other sensitive material”. Some Democrats have said that they believe Republicans will do so, although there has been no evidence for this.
He added in his July press conference announcing the findings of the FBI investigation into the matter, “With respect to the thousands of e-mails we found that were not among those produced to State, agencies have concluded that three of those were classified at the time they were sent or received, one at the Secret level and two at the Confidential level”. “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”.
The State Department expressed concern that the documents might contain sensitive diplomatic information, and had asked to review them before the Federal Bureau of Investigation handed them over.
She said those viewing the material were allowed to take notes.
“The FBI should make as much of the material available as possible”, Mr. Grassley said in a statement.
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First, that she testified that her lawyers had read every page of her emails when working to determine what was work-related and what wasn’t.
