The FBI on Tuesday provided Congress portions of its file from the agency’s yearlong investigation into whether then-Secretary of State Clinton and her top aides mishandled classified information that flowed through a private email server located in the basement of her NY home.
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The documents were believed to include notes from the FBI’s 31/2-hour interview with Clinton in early July, the last step in a lengthy investigation into her email practices as secretary of state that continues to dog her run for president. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Government Oversight Committee, said that despite his position he is not allowed to read all of the sections of the documents, which “shows how unsafe it was to have this intelligence, highly classified to this day, on the former secretary’s unsecured personal server where it was vulnerable”.
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.
That finding triggered the FBI investigation into whether Clinton and her aides mishandled classified information via the private email setup.
During an exclusive interview aired on Wednesday’s NBC Today, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine struggled to respond to Hillary Clinton’s ongoing e-mail scandal as co-host Savannah Guthrie actually grilled him on the topic.
A spokeswoman for the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee said in an email that staff for the panel was reviewing the information classified as ‘secret’.
This post has been seen 5 times. “There has been no determination by the State Department as to whether these three emails were classified at the time they were sent”, he wrote.
All material could not be released publicly and was presented to USA lawmakers as classified information.
Also, Republicans say Clinton testified that none of the emails she sent or received were marked classified.
Ruhle said that while FBI Director James Comey said that Clinton didn’t do anything with her emails that merited prosecution, “I$3 t’s not like he gave her a stellar review and an A+”.
Clinton had no comment, and her campaign is asking for the notes from her interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be made public. “The people’s interest would be served in seeing the documents that are unclassified”.
Because the material is marked as classified, congressional officials will need to review the material in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House oversight committee, said Clinton did not originate the three email chains in question, which were forwarded to her private account by aides. “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”. “My understanding is that we have not received them”.
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Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, has sued under the Freedom of Information Act for the release of Clinton’s emails.
