At a State Department briefing Tuesday, spokesman Mark Toner said the agency had approved sending Congress some emails related to the probe, but that the agencies had not yet come to terms about how to handle Federal Bureau of Investigation notes of interviews with Clinton and other former and current State employees.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation closed its yearlong probe last month into whether Clinton and her aides mishandled sensitive information that flowed through the private email server located in the basement of her NY home.
But Herring also asserted that investigators found no evidence Clinton meant to mishandle classified information, noting that even three emails marked as classified did not originate with her and that State had determined two of them did not contain classified information.
The FBI sent lawmakers notes on its interview with Hillary Clinton about her use of a private e-mail server, as the State Department confirmed that it will release several thousand work-related messages that Clinton failed to turn over.
“Committee staff is now reviewing the information that is classified secret”.
Senator Dianne Feinstein said the FBI’s letter to the Judiciary Committee makes clear this is much ado about nothing.
The letter was sent to House Oversight Committee members the same day that the bureau released to the GOP-controlled Congress a variety of materials from its investigation.
Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California who once served as a federal prosecutor, said the House Intelligence Committee had also received “witness interview reports” on the Clinton email probe. The office deferred to those committees for updates going forward. “Moreover, only one of those emails was determined by the State Department to contain classified information”.
The issue of Clinton’s mishandling of classified information on an unsecured private server has dogged her campaign for more than a year.
It’s unclear what will be barred from release and what non-classified portions may be leaked once congressional staff get to dive into them.
The GOP-led committees have not provided details about the full contents of the FBI’s submission to Congress.
“The material contains classified and other sensitive information and is being provided with the expectation it will not be disseminated or disclosed”, she said. According to FOX News, Hillary Clinton asserted that the emails in question were not labeled as classified until later on while the investigation found evidence to the contrary.
“If your name is not Clinton”, Chaffetz said, “or you’re not part of the powerful elite, then Lady Justice will act differently”.
The FBI also provided documents from its investigation to the House Judiciary Committee, an aide said.
“They may be willing to risk appearing completely unreasonable, if that helps distract people from the next utterly insane or un-American thing that Donald Trump says”, Cartwright said.
Included in the documents were reportedly notes that agents took last month during a three and-a-half hour interview with Clinton on the matter.
Democratic House Intelligence Committee member Adam Schiff from California released a statement saying the FBI’s decision to release this information sets a unsafe precedent. “My understanding is that we have not received them”.
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Clinton said a year ago that she turned over 55,000 pages of emails, but said she deleted thousands more she and her lawyers deemed as personal. Clinton had said those were all of her work-related messages.
