Congress receives FBI notes from Clinton interview
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The House oversight committee says it has received FBI documents related to the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. A spokeswoman for the committee says the committee is reviewing documents that are labeled classified.
WASHINGTON >> Congress received FBI documents related to the agency’s recently closed investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for the Republican-led House oversight panel said staff is reviewing documents that are classified as secret. Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, said in a statement that the panel received “FBI witness interview reports, including that of Secretary Clinton’s interview, along with other materials from the FBI’s now closed investigative file.”
The FBI last month closed its yearlong probe into whether Clinton and her aides mishandled sensitive information that flowed through a private email server located in the basement of her New York home. Though he described Clinton’s actions as “extremely careless,” FBI Director James Comey said his agents found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the Democratic presidential nominee.
In a statement, the FBI said the materials were provided to Congress consistent with the agency’s “commitment to transparency” in the Clinton case. The material contains classified information and was provided “with the expectation it will not be disseminated or disclosed” without the FBI’s agreement, the agency said on Tuesday.
Furious the FBI didn’t press charges against their political rival, House Republicans pressed the agency to release notes from its agents’ July interview with Clinton. They claim the FBI notes, which are typically kept confidential after an investigation is closed, may show Clinton provided inconsistent answers to questions about her handling of emails containing classified information during testimony last year before the House Benghazi panel.
Republicans are also demanding that the Justice Department open a new investigation into whether Clinton lied to Congress. Justice Department spokeswoman Melanie Newman declined to comment Tuesday on the GOP request for a perjury investigation.
Though the Republicans failed to find evidence to support their claims that Clinton was negligent in preventing or stopping the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, they are now focusing on questions surrounding the Democratic nominee’s haphazard handling of emails containing government secrets. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump routinely criticizes Clinton over her email use when she was secretary of state.
Clinton said last year that she turned over all 55,000 pages of work-related emails from her server, but said she deleted thousands more she and her lawyers deemed as personal. Clinton also says she never sent any information by email that was marked “classified.”
More than 100 emails exchanged by Clinton were subsequently reviewed and determined to contain information considered classified. Republicans have pointed to three email chains forwarded to Clinton that contained paragraphs marked “(C),” signifying they contained classified information, as evidence she lied.
Democrats, meanwhile, expressed concern that the Republicans would leak snippets of the classified materials carefully selected to make the presidential candidate look bad without providing a fair account of what happened.
Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said Tuesday the campaign would like the FBI notes to be publicly released in full.
“This is an extraordinarily rare step that was sought solely by Republicans for the purposes of further second-guessing the career professionals at the FBI,” Fallon said. “We believe that if these materials are going to be shared outside the Justice Department, they should be released widely so that the public can see them for themselves, rather than allow Republicans to mischaracterize them through selective, partisan leaks.”
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. He said only one of those emails was later determined by the State Department to contain classified information.
“The FBI already determined unanimously that there is insufficient evidence of criminal wrongdoing,” said Cummings, D-Md. “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.”
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Tuesday that the FBI allowed the department to review emails the agency is providing Congress.
“I think we’re satisfied after having reviewed these emails that the FBI has made arrangements that the documents will be transmitted subject to appropriate handling controls,” he said, adding that the department respects the FBI’s desire to accommodate the requests of its congressional oversight committees.
Toner said, however, that the department is still discussing with the FBI the release of additional notes from the interviews investigators did with Clinton and her aides.
“My understanding is that we continue to work with FBI on those interview summaries,” Toner said. “We haven’t quite reached an agreement on those. My understanding is that we have not received them.”
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Associated Press reporter Deb Riechmann in Washington and Ken Thomas in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
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This article failed to mention the FBI concluded Hillary Clinton did not sent any classified email on her private account.
Absolutely correct. Very old news.
Republicans are also demanding that the Justice Department open a new investigation into whether Clinton lied to Congress. Justice Department spokeswoman Melanie Newman declined to comment Tuesday on the GOP request for a perjury investigation.
Though the Republicans failed to find evidence to support their claims that Clinton was negligent in preventing or stopping the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, they are now focusing on questions surrounding the Democratic nominee’s haphazard handling of emails containing government secrets. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump routinely criticizes Clinton over her email use when she was secretary of state.
What a load of GOP face losers. Trey of BS.
Rigged system…old news.
if she did not send any classified e-mail to her private account that was hacked, then why did that nuclear scientist in Iran get executed, because he was working for us and she had that classified information which should not have been on her e-mail, she already got one man executed, and maybe some more of our agents in other countries around the world could be executed. she is a traitor to our country.
No, they didn’t. The FBI found that she sent AND received classified information on her private account, to include some material classified above Top Secret.
No, they didn’t. The FBI found that she sent AND received classified information on her private account, to include some material classified above Top Secret.
From Politico:
During an extended exchange with Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), Comey affirmed that the FBI’s investigation found information marked classified on her server even after Clinton had said that she had neither sent nor received any items marked classified.
“That is not true,” Comey said. “There were a small number of portion markings on, I think, three of the documents.”
Asked whether Clinton’s testimony that she did not email “any classified material to anyone on my email” and “there is no classified material” was true, Comey responded, “No, there was classified material emailed.”
“Secretary Clinton said she used one device. Was that true?” Gowdy asked, to which Comey answered, “She used multiple devices during the four years of her term as secretary of state.”
Gowdy then asked whether it was true that Clinton, as she said, returned all work-related emails to the State Department.
“No, we found work-related emails, thousands that were not returned,” Comey said.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/james-comey-testimony/2016/07/clinton-untrue-statements-fbi-comey-225216#ixzz4HhsQNkB0
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The worst person to ever run for The Office. Incompetent, deceitful, proven liar, unfit, placing personal greed & power OVER Americans & American lives lost, and some mysteriously, has health issues, NO achievements of note…etc. But the worst thing about hiLIARy is…she is ABOVE THE LAW.
The problem is that the republicans choice was the Chump and it is game over.
Yeah game over Harry trump.
Get ready for the daunting task of cleaning up the HUGE MESS created the last 8 years.
TRUMP PENCE 2016
” MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN”
Who is The Chump that you refer? Show some class if you have any. But then again it would be too much to ask considering who you are supporting.
I think she had something to do with naming Sandy Beach Obama Beach.
You mean Sand in the Head Obama Beach.
Wait till she rips the top of his monster sideburns right over his cracked cranium. This will happen in the first debate. You will witness a brown gutzy organ that bleeds and smell like vomit vodka.
Hey Boss how ’bout dialing back the anger a little bit. Where’s the aloha? Where’s the tolerance for those not like you? Aren’t democrats known for being tolerant and supportive of all viewpoints?
He not acting like a boss…but a disgruntled worker?
He needs a psychiatrist as usual.
Unemployed, collecting welfare, typical Crooked Hilliary supporters. Him, Ikefromeli, boots, Keaukaha, Klastri, all wannabes. Today the POTUS campaign, tomorrow Mauna Kea.
You see these clowns going from one post to another. Pure nonsense. When Trump wins all these guys are going to be on suicide watch. They’re just as phony as Crooked Clinton.
Isn’t this the same guy who thinks the rail is the answer?
Same guy, SA keep track of this guy. Dangerous to himself.
Crooked Hilliary is getting desperate.Her Mynah birds are getting nervous. She’s spending 100s of millions on attack ads, calling him names, but not getting the desired results. Come October she’s done like a beached whale.
She will say anything and not change anything. Anyone who can get past the smell and believe her bull kaka is not to bright.
Trump is the perfect candidate to tear down the Clinton Wall of Corruption. She and the boatload of her corrupt Democrats are in for a rude awakening.
My favorite so far: “Hillary is the cow that milks America.”
Crooked, Rotten, Short Circuited, Lying hiLIARy Corruption clinton…this will be her last hurrah and the Clinton mafia will end come November.
Her health issue will play a HUGE role in hiLIARy’s demise.
They should start grooming chelsea to continue the corruption…err…legacy.
Everything about the investigation is confidential. It figures. Keep the negative information confidential until after the election.
I mean come on, look at her picture. You think that’s bad? Tomorrow will be worse.
She should get John Kerry’s botox doc on the phone. Nasty looking turkey neck to go with the cankles.
There’s that nasty Clinton finger again. She does it just like Bill did, and when they do it, you now they’re lying. Heck, you know they’re lying every time they open their mouths.
” Now you listen to me; I did not have sex with that woman, Huma. Not one time. Besides, what difference does it make?”
Louisiana is under water, innocent children are being killed in Syria,blacks are out of control and the potus is on vacation? 4 Americans are massacred in Benghazi. Where was the potus?
Crooked Clinton, 4 more years? Lock her up.
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