“I am concerned”, he said.
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Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan wrote to James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, requesting he deny Ms Clinton access to classified information for the duration of the 2016 campaign.
The chairman of the House committee probing why Hillary Clinton was not indicted this week is telling FBI Director James Comey that the decision is a mystery.
Trump, who polls show faces an uphill battle against Clinton in November, has repeatedly accused Clinton of masking her involvement in illegal activity by deleting more than 30,000 emails she claimed were personal and not related to her job as top USA diplomat. “It was not a stellar moment, you have to put it in the context of her overall career”, said Feingold.
In a CNN interview, Clinton once again called her decision to create a private server a “mistake”, while seemingly rejecting Comey’s conclusion that she and her staff had been “extremely careless”, including through her use of multiple mobile devices. At the time Congress passed that statute in 1917, there was a lot of concern in the House and Senate about whether that was going to violate the American tradition of requiring that before you go and lock somebody up, you proved they knew they were doing something wrong.
He and other Republicans have cried foul over the lack of charges, alleging that Clinton’s influence helped her escape criminal proceedings.
But Republican critics of Clinton have often cited Petraeus’ punishment as a baseline for what the Democratic presidential nominee should face for improper storage of sensitive State Department emails on her personal server.
Comey explained that he could not prove Clinton knew she would receive classified information on her unsecured server, and beyond that, that she chose to use the system anyway.
REP. TREY GOWDY: Secretary Clinton said all work-related e-mails were returned to the State Department. He noted that while someone could be prosecuted under espionage law for “gross negligence” in handling classified material, it had only happened once in 100 years.
Chaffetz added that he would forward Clinton’s testimony before the House Benghazi Committee to the FBI to investigate whether or not she lied under oath to Congress.
Though Gowdy, a former prosecutor, was probably the best at it, it wasn’t particularly hard for any of the members of the panel to make Clinton look duplicitous and reckless because, well, the facts are pretty damning.
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However, he went on, the evidence also suggested that the former Secretary of State was not “particularly sophisticated with respect to classified information and the levels and treatment”, nor was she “as technically sophisticated as others might assume”, given her status.
