It seems the Hillary Clinton email saga still isn’t over.
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On Tuesday, Congress received the FBI’s investigation summary into Clinton’s email server and notes from a 3½-hour interview with the former secretary of state.
This sharing of information is rare. Due to the classified nature of the interview notes, many parts have been blacked out or can only be read by committee members in a secure area.
The Clinton campaign has called for the notes to become public.
Some Republicans are urging that the unclassified documents be released publicly.
Judicial Watch, in a press release announcing the news from the State Department, noted that in a separate filing in another FOIA lawsuit, the government acknowledged that an entire disc “containing information recovered by the FBI in the course of its investigation” had not been included “in the materials provided to the State Department by former Secretary Clinton in December 2014”.
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+”. He said only one of those emails was later determined by the State Department to contain classified information.
The FBI, in a statement, made clear that it expected lawmakers to use the documents for oversight and not to selectively leak details three months before the election.
“But the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in a letter sent to the committee on Tuesday, said the fact that the agency had uncovered three instances in which Clinton had received emails containing “(C)” markings, which denote “confidential” information, was “not clear evidence of knowledge or intent” to mishandle such material. He also said Clinton was not under oath when she partook in the interview, though it would still be a crime to deliberately and knowingly mislead law enforcement. “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”.
“The FBI is in the process of providing relevant information to other US Government agencies to conduct further security and administrative reviews they deem appropriate for their respective employees”, he wrote.
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The agency wanted to review any documents relating to the interview before they are provided to Congress, State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said. This acknowledgment by the State Department is also at odds with her official campaign statement suggesting all “work or potentially work-related emails” were provided to the State Department.
