As we’ve reported, Clinton has consistently held that she did not send nor receive any information “marked classified”.
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Comey testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday. “They were not meant to classify something that ordinarily was not classified”, she said in the interview with Muir.
Director Comey replied, “I am not going to comment on the existence or non-existence of any other investigation”, whetting the appetites of Clinton’s opponents.
In his testimony, Comey said three of Clinton’s emails had “portion markings” on them indicating they were classified, but since they weren’t properly marked in the email header, Clinton could have missed them.
“In that case, you had vast quantities of highly classified information… not only shared with someone without authority to have it, but we found it in a search warrant… and then he lied to us about it during the investigation”, Comey explained. Attorney General Loretta Lynch formally closed the inquiry Wednesday.
“In their eyes, you had one job, and one job only, to prosecute Hillary Clinton”, Cummings said. Remember what Comey said about “criminal intent?”
The FBI investigation concluded that Clinton should not be charged criminally for her actions, but that she was “extremely careless” nonetheless.
Cory Gardner, R-Colo., and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, would revoke Clinton’s security clearance as well as those of her State Department staffers who “exhibited extreme carelessness in their handling of classified information” when she served as secretary of state.
“With respect to the handling of classified material, I take it very seriously, and the 300 or so people with whom I e-mailed on the course of my time in the State Department do as well”, she told PBS news.
The Republican National Committee said in an email to reporters that Clinton “continued to misrepresent the facts about her email scandal and refused to commit to cooperating with a rekindled State Department probe into her handling of classified material”.
Though Comey’s less-than-definitive remarks were interpreted by many cyber security experts as an indication that Clinton’s server was indeed hacked – The New York Times ran a piece citing such experts – Clinton dismissed the idea as mere speculation on the Federal Bureau of Investigation director’s part. “We are glad that this matter is now resolved”, spokesman Brian Fallon said. It also calls into question the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s long-standing insistence that she never sent or received e-mails “marked classified”.
“The advent of email and texts and smartphones is just generating enormous amounts of data”, Mr. Obama said.
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“He (Comey) defined all the allegations as being contradictory to what Ms. Clinton actually did, so it validated that there was a problem”, Gosar said after the hearing.
