On Wednesday’s broadcast of “MSNBC Live”, host Stephanie Ruhle played a montage of FBI Director James Comey contradicting Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statements before the Benghazi Select Committee and asked Representative Matt Cartwright (D-PA), “How is that not perjury?”.
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The FBI, citing a desire for transparency, on Tuesday gave Republican congressional leaders a package of documents summarizing its investigation of Clinton’s use of private email servers.
A Republican senator says the FBI is improperly restricting access to materials from its closed investigation, however.
As is common practice with FBI interviews of witnesses and investigative targets alike, a full transcript of the Democratic presidential nominee’s FBI interview does not exist and the FBI did not record the interview, Comey explained in his testimony in July. Clinton also says she never sent any information by email that was marked as classified.
In October 2015, Hillary Clinton faced controversy over emails that were kept on her private server while she held office as the Secretary of State.
But Republicans in Congress aren’t done with the scandal yet.
Republican lawmakers have pushed for the FBI to release any documents relating to the investigation, including notes on the former secretary of state’s three-and-a-half-hour interview last month.
The Clinton campaign crying foul, releasing this statement, “They should be released widely so that the public can see them for themselves, rather than allow republicans to mischaracterize them through selective, partisan leaks”.
“The FBI should make as much of the material available as possible, “Sen. The people’s interest would be served in seeing the documents that are unclassified”.
Documents containing classified information are commingled with those marked as “Unclassified/For Official Use”. The Clinton campaign called for the Federal Bureau of Investigation materials to be shared more broadly – to the public – so they can see the notes for themselves, “rather than allow Republicans to mischaracterize them through selective, partisan leaks”, Fallon said in a statement.
“There are no further details at this time”, the aide said.
Where do you stand on the release of Hillary Clinton’s documents to the Oversight Committee? “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”.
FBI Director James B. Comey testified last month that Mrs. Clinton, a former secretary of state, US senator and first lady, might not have been sophisticated enough to understand the markings.
Haq was at the State Department for some of the time that Clinton was secretary of state before going to work at the White House.
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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”.
