The subpoenas were among several developments Monday that showed a new GOP emphasis on Clinton’s emails after the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently closed its yearlong probe into whether she and her aides mishandled sensitive government information that flowed through her server.
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House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz is demanding to know whether the FBI investigated the possibility that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s lawyers mishandled classified information.
A federal judge urged the State Department to review the documents and release them at a hearing Monday, CBS News reports.
The 14,900 Clinton documents are almost 50 percent above the roughly 30,000 emails that Clinton’s lawyers deemed work-related and returned to the department in December 2014.
Campaign spokesman Brian Fallon reiterated Monday that Clinton provided all the work-related emails she had “in her possession” when the State Department asked for copies in 2014.
Hillary Clinton’s latest attempt to brush aside a nagging email scandal comes after months of various remarks she has made about the use of a personal email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
“You know, the government doesn’t want you to know what they’re doing, and that’s true Republican or Democrat administration”, Fitton said. “And the widespread use of email and other internet media like text messaging is a challenge because the government officials know there are ways of keeping things from us, so we just have to keep on tracking it”. It is unclear how many documents might be attachments, duplicates or exempt from release for privacy or legal reasons.
FBI Director James Comey said in July that investigators found “several thousand” more emails that were not included in the December batch. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, who chairs the Committee on Science, Space and Technology, is demanding documents by September 9 after the firms declined earlier this year to produce them voluntarily.
An aide to Rice told the Daily Caller in a post published Monday that Rice has “no recollection” of a conversation between Hillary Clinton and Colin Powell that reportedly took place at a 2009 dinner party of former Secretaries of State, during which Powell allegedly recommended that Clinton use a private email account.
Two days later, Abedin wrote Band that Clinton was able to meet with Crown Prince Salman, and that he should let the Bahraini royal know if he sees him. But now there’s a chance that more damaging information about Clinton could leak out in the form of these newly discovered emails.
In a joint statement, Smith and Johnson said the move was necessary after the three companies – Platte River Networks, Datto Inc. and SECNAP Network Security Corp. – declined to voluntarily answer questions to determine whether Clinton’s private server met government standards for record-keeping and security.
“He did write former Secretary Clinton an email memo describing his use of his personal AOL email account for unclassified messages and how it vastly improved communications within the State Department”, his office told NBC on Friday.
Toner, the State Department spokesman, said Monday that there was nothing improper or unusual about the messages with the Clinton Foundation staff.
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In a statement, the government of Bahrain said the $32 million pledge was in support of a scholarship program for young men and women from the Persian Gulf kingdom who attend universities in Europe and North America. The firms’ services were retained in 2013.
