On Wednesday evening, as Clinton and Trump were taking part in their first forum as their parties’ nominees for president, a top House Democrat made public an email exchange between Powell and Clinton from early 2009.
Advertisement
With this in mind, the Republican Chairman of the House Committee wants a federal prosecutor to determine if the Presidential Candidate actually had a hand in the elimination of her emails by a Colorado tech firm which oversaw her computer server in 2015.
The FBI’s yearlong investigation concluded that Mrs. Clinton was was “extremely careless” in handling top-secret information and enemy hackers had the potential to have breached her email server, however Mr. Comey previously said he doubted a criminal case could be made against her.
“These documents demonstrate Hillary Clinton’s reckless and downright unsafe handling of classified information during her tenure as secretary of state”, said Ryan.
And Secretary of State Colin Powell’s attempt to distance himself from Clinton’s email practices amid the appearance that Powell also used a private server. They outlined their case against her in an August letter that showed how Clinton’s past statements differed from what the FBI found during its investigation. Those occurred separately from the email deletions overseen by the former secretary of state’s legal team previous year before she turned over 33,000 work-related messages to the State Department.
FBI Director James Comey defended the work of his agents Wednesday in a memo to staff, arguing the decision to spare Hillary Clinton and her aides from prosecution for their mistreatment of classified information was not a hard one.
The document noted that Clinton would frequently switch devices and sometimes ” [Huma} Abedin and Hanley indicated the whereabouts of Clinton’s new devices would frequently become unknown once she transitioned to a new device”.
Advertisement
Again, none of these revelations seem likely to change the ultimate determination by the Justice Department that Clinton should not be prosecuted for mishandling classified information. She said she never had any conversations about using the email server as a way to get around her legal obligations under FOIA or the Federal Records Act, which imposes requirements for maintaining government documents. Comey said last July that he had no basis to find that the deletions of Clinton’s emails were aimed at concealing evidence. “That’s not fair to the American people, Congress or Secretary Clinton”. The Justice Department has so far heeded the recommendation for no charges. One is from Clinton thanking State workers for their work on Benghazi and another from a former advance man in the Clinton White House, Rick Jasculca, praising Clinton’s performance. However, names and other pertinent information have been omitted from the report.
