FBI Turns Over Secret Clinton Email Documents To GOP Lawmakers

The former State chief has repeatedly denied handling classified information with her private email account, but subsequent revelations have at the very least cast some doubt over those claims. This sharing of information is rare.

Dozens of Republicans lawmakers had demanded that the FBI hand over the report about Clinton’s interview, raising questions about the bureau’s investigation.

FBI Director James Comey told Congress last month that Clinton’s handling of classified information while using private email servers was “extremely careless”.

In a statement, the FBI said it was providing additional materials to lawmakers “consistent with our commitment to transparency” with congressional overseers about the Clinton investigation.

In a separate filing in another Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit, the State Department acknowledged that an entire disc “containing information recovered by the FBI in the course of its investigation” had not been included “in the materials provided to the State Department by former Secretary Clinton in December 2014”.

“The American people will now see more of the e-mails Hillary Clinton tried to hide from them”, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “Committee staff is now reviewing the information that is classified SECRET”.

“There are no further details at this time”, the aide said.

The interviews in the Clinton email case were voluntary and the Federal Bureau of Investigation practice is to not have recorded or transcribed, but instead to have them “memorialized” with notes taken by an Federal Bureau of Investigation agent.

Clinton was fiercely criticized by her political opponents after the remarks because they directly contradicted her previous assertion that she had provided all her official email.

FBI Director Comey did a great disservice to the public usurping the responsibility of the Attorney General, and scolding Clinton while doing what no director has done before: recommending, in public, no prosecution. Clinton also says she never sent any information by email that was marked as classified.

Comey said the evidence supports the conclusion that “any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton’s position or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation”.

“The FBI already determined unanimously that there is insufficient evidence of criminal wrongdoing. 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”, he said in a statement.

“I think we’re satisfied after having reviewed these emails that the Federal Bureau of Investigation 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.

Comey said last month that the agency found “thousands” of emails from Clinton’s server that were work-related and deleted and had not been turned over to the State Department. “We are still trying to come up with a decision on how we’ll, or whether we’ll release them publicly as we did with the 55,000”.