“And as I have said many times, I certainly did not believe that I received or sent any material that was classified”, Clinton said in the interview. “If a foreign hacker got into this, I can assure you that they know what’s in the emails that were deleted”.
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“And I think that what’s important here is follow the evidence. They weren’t looking at it”.
A group of Republicans senators has introduced legislation to strip Clinton of her security clearance.
South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy asked Comey a series of questions rooted in the former secretary of state’s statements on the issue.
Was that true, asked Gowdy?
“Although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case”, Mr. Comey told reporters in Washington.
Prosecutors said that while his biographer, Paula Broadwell, was writing her book in 2011, Petraeus gave her eight binders of classified material he had improperly kept from his time as the top military commander in Afghanistan.
Comey: That’s not true, there were a small number of portion markings on, I think, three of the documents. “It takes mishandling it (the information) and it takes criminal intent”. “Everybody knows that, director”.
Clinton said, “There was nothing marked classified on my emails, either sent or received”.
“In their (Republicans’) eyes, you had one job and one job only: to prosecute Hillary Clinton”, said Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland, to Comey.
Mr. Comey was appointed Federal Bureau of Investigation director in 2013 by President Obama.
Gowdy had one final question: “Secretary Clinton said her lawyers read every one of the emails and were overly inclusive”. And asked whether Clinton had lied to Congress, Fallon replied: “Of course not”.
The comments came in an emergency hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee called just two days after Comey announced his recommendation, which some committee members deemed “mystifying”. “But you refused, so now you are being summoned here to answer for your alleged transgressions”.
As we’ve reported, Clinton has consistently held that she did not send nor receive any information “marked classified”.
Spokesman John Kirby said the emails probe is restarting now that the Justice Department is not pursuing a criminal prosecution. In a different year, with a Republican nominee other than Donald Trump, it seems plausible that this would derail Clinton’s candidacy, forcing the Democrats to scramble to find a replacement. But her out it appears to be-more or less-that she was too stupid to understand the classification markers on such communications.
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Mr Ryan, a Republican vice presidential candidate in 2012, said he was aware Clinton would begin receiving classified intelligence briefings after the Democratic National Convention if she is formally nominated as expected.
