Attorney General Loretta Lynch quickly ratified the recommendation.
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FBI Director James Comey is now facing a congressional probe after his controversial decision to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for mishandling classified information on her private email server, RadarOnline.com has learned. “Because of Trump, they would seize upon anything”, he told reporters.
Ryan also recommended that the Director of National Intelligence “should block her access to classified information” as a form of punishment.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said lawmakers would ask the director to explain how he could square his scolding of Clinton’s decisions with his suggestion that she is not legally culpable.
“There is evidence to support a conclusion that any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position. should have known that an unclassified system was no place” for sensitive conversations, Comey said.
The attorney general, conservatives say, has built a resume of letting Obama administration officials off the hook during her short tenure.
“I want to take this opportunity to applaud Secretary Clinton for the very bold initiative she has just brought forth today for the financing of higher education”.
The Hillary Clinton email controversy is never going to end.
Comey is to testify before the House Oversight Committee Thursday.
On Capitol Hill, Representative Steve Scalise, the No. 3 House of Representatives Republican, reacted to Lynch’s announcement by proclaiming: “Secretary Clinton broke the law and lied about it”.
“With the AG accepting Director Comey’s recommendation, this case is resolved, no matter Republicans’ attempts to continue playing politics”, campaign spokesman Brian Fallon tweeted. Senior Senate Republicans insisted that the FBI’s investigation be made available to the public, including a transcript of the more than three hours Clinton spent last Saturday in an interview conducted by the agency. Did Clinton return all work-related emails to the State Department?
Mrs Clinton had previously said she had not knowingly sent or received classified material from her private email account.
Lynch said last week that she would accept the recommendations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation director and of career prosecutors.
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While Clinton has maintained a promise throughout her campaign to make public college debt-free if elected president, her opponent, Sen. Lynch announced the decision in a statement Wednesday, saying Comey and “career prosecutors and agents” unanimously recommended that the investigation be closed without charges.
