Congress receives FBI notes from Clinton interview

Claiming that Hillary Clinton lied to Congress previous year during her congressional testimony about her email practices, two senior House Republicans have filed a criminal referral for perjury charges against the Democratic Presidential nominee.

Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said Tuesday the campaign would like the Federal Bureau of Investigation notes to be publicly released in full.

House Republicans have detailed perjury allegations against Hillary Clinton, citing the apparent conflict between her 2015 congressional testimony about her email practices and the FBI’s conclusions announced in July, according to a letter to the USA attorney for the District of Columbia.

Comey testified before the House Oversight panel July 7, when he told lawmakers Clinton had been truthful with the bureau during a 3 1/2 hour interrogation at FBI headquarters.

At issue was FBI Director James Comey saying the agency’s investigation found that Clinton sent and received classified information on her private email system, despite her earlier statements to the contrary.

And the Justice Department agreed.

The GOP lawmakers also asked Comey to clarify the apparent discrepancy between his Capitol Hill testimony and statements made by Clinton over the past year about whether classified information was discussed in her private email messages.

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.

“Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, ” Comey said then, “our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutors would bring such a case”.

The release of fresh information on the criminal investigation remains controversial with many Democrats and Justice Department veterans.

The lawmakers asked Comey to provide an explanation of why the interview wasn’t transcribed, as well as copies of interviewing agents’ notes. “My understanding is that we have not received them”.

The FBI is also planning to turn over the summaries of interviews with other Clinton aides, these people said.

Clinton repeatedly said that she only used one device and one server as a matter of convenience. The State Department then said that some of those classification marking were the result of human error and didn’t need to be on them.

The letter from Chaffetz and Goodlatte concludes by stating that the list of sworn statements by Clinton “are incompatible with the FBI’s findings”, which they believe should amount to perjury charges.

The GOP-led committees have not provided details about the full contents of the FBI’s submission to Congress.