Justice Dept. closes Clinton email probe with no charges

The Wisconsin Republican says in a letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that if Clapper rejects the request, Ryan wants him to provide his rationale for granting Clinton access to such information “despite the FBI’s findings”.

“As a former vice presidential nominee, I am keenly aware that Secretary Clinton is set to begin receiving classified intelligence briefings after the Democratic National Convention”. On their recommendation, Lynch said she’ll consider the year-long investigation closed and accept the FBI’s recommendation to not charge anyone.

The Justice Department will now look into whether anyone else mishandled the classified information.

Lynch said she met with Comey and prosecutors Wednesday and agreed that the investigation, which looked into the potential mishandling of classified information, should be concluded.

But its assessment found that Clinton was “extremely careless” in sending classified information via her personal email account.

The Clinton campaign said it was pleased at the FBI’s announcement and called the Republican-led call for Comey’s hearing a “taxpayer-funded sham of an inquiry” meant to hurt Clinton politically.

According to the New York Times, she sent or received about two dozen emails marked “top-secret”, the highest level of classification, through that address.

“The Republicans might be better off repeating what Comey said over and over again until November, ” Skelley said, referring to Comey’s comments Clinton’s irresponsible handling of classified information.

Clinton has claimed that her lawyers were “over-inclusive” by handing over around 1,000 emails that the State Department determined were not related to government business. Another tranche of emails was found after a “laborious review” of millions of email fragments “dumped into the slack space” of Clintons’ server, said Comey. While Comey confirmed that classified information was transmitted and stored improperly and the personal e-mail system may have been hacked, he formally recommended that no charges be filed against Secretary Clinton.

“The FBI’s recommendation is surprising and confusing”.

Ryan said Congress would decide whether it could impose such penalties.

He said “any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position … should have known that an unclassified system was no place” for sensitive email exchanges. FBI investigators also found thousands of work-related emails that were not included in the 30,000 emails Clinton handed over to the State Department. “She was guilty. And it turned out that, ‘We’re not going to press charges.’ It’s really awesome”, he said at a campaign rally. Agents had earlier interviewed top aides, including her former State Department chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, and Huma Abedin, a longtime aide who now is the vice chairwoman of Clinton’s campaign.