US Attorney-General Loretta Lynch says she has accepted the FBI’s recommendation that no charges be brought over Hillary Clinton’s email practices while secretary of state. Even before Comey’s public statement, Lynch had said she meant to accept the recommendations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation director and of her career prosecutors.
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That FBI investigation may yet have a significant impact on this race, but on this sweltering afternoon in a town that has seen better days, Clinton was happy to make Trump the target and supporters were convinced that she hit a bulls-eye.
On Tuesday, Comey said that in the FBI’s view, “no charges are appropriate in this case”.
According to the statement, Lynch met with FBI director James Comey and other prosecutors and agents who conducted the investigation.
Republicans said they were infuriated with the FBI’s decision and confused by the way it was presented.
Bernie Sanders, who has appeared hesitant to embrace Hillary Clinton even after she became the clear victor of the Democratic presidential primary season, is eagerly welcoming her new plan to make higher education more affordable.
CLAIM: “I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for personal emails instead of two”, Ms Clinton said in March 2015.
“There are a lot of questions that have to be answered”. Questions about the propriety of Clinton’s use of unauthorized email servers in her Chappaqua, New York, home during her time as secretary of state from January 2009 until February 2013 have raised questions about her judgment from all sides of the political spectrum.
Even so, it officially closes out an FBI investigation that had dogged Clinton for the a year ago and had proved a distraction on the campaign trail. A Democratic member of the committee, Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland, defended Comey’s actions by saying, “I firmly believe your decision was based on conviction, not convenience”.
Yet many legal analysts say she still could be charged with gross negligence in mishandling classified information, and that assertion shouldn’t be so easily dismissed.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who has discussed the probe with Comey, invited him to testify on Capitol Hill Thursday morning about the investigation. Clinton has said she did not knowingly send or receive classified information through her private email server.
“You can boo me all you want – I am going to continue to fight to make sure that we transform this country”, he said.
That hearing also features the inspectors general for the State Department and intelligence community.
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But legal experts said that if Clinton aides were found to have treated classified material with extreme carelessness that could give the government reason to consider denying them a security clearance in the future or suspending or revoking one they may now have.
