Grassley: FBI Improperly Restricted Clinton Investigation Files
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The documents are reportedly being kept in a secure room on Capitol Hill, alongside other sensitive materials.
Because the material is marked as classified, congressional officials will need to review the material in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
The FBI handed over to the committee a heavily redacted investigation summary, as well as the agents’ notes, Fox News confirmed.
So much sensitive and nationally compromising information passed through Clinton’s private account; the Federal Bureau of Investigation found that 113 classified emails were sent and received through the server, and 2,000 more were classified afterwards.
“The FBI conducted this investigation, as it does all investigations, in a competent, honest and independent way”, wrote Jason Herring, the FBI’s liaison with Congress, in the letter. “For that reason, these materials may not be further disseminated or disclosed, in part or in full, without obtaining the FBI’s concurrence”.
The documents were made available to the Judiciary, Homeland Security, and Appropriations committees in the Senate, and the Oversight, Judiciary and Appropriations committees in the House, aides said.
The calls for the FBI to release Clinton’s interview notes started after FBI Director James Comey testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in July.
While campaigning in Philadelphia, Clinton had no comment but an aide said the perjury accusation “reeks of desperation on the part of Republicans who continue to use taxpayer money to affect an election that isn’t going their way”.
Surrounding this issue are concerns that senators or their staff might leak information from the files that would damage Clinton.
Yet because some sections are classified, access is restricted to the documents. He said if all the documents were unclassified, then it would be surprising – though not prohibited – for them to be stored in a SCIF.
It is still unclear whether Grassley’s efforts to separate the classified material from the unclassified material will help in getting at least some of the materials released publicly.