GOP lawmaker: FBI gave immunity for Clinton aide’s testimony

Chaffetz said he was “absolutely stunned” at the revelation. “The FBI was handing out immunity agreements like candy”.

Republicans have been pressuring the FBI to make public more material from the investigation, which ended in July with a finding by FBI Director James B. Comey that Clinton should not be charged with a crime though she had been “extremely careless” with classified information.

The FBI did not recommend charges following the closure of the investigation, which focused on whether Clinton mishandled classified information.

And as it turns out, the reason some people at State Clinton emailed were unaware of her use of a private server was that their emails from her “only contained the letter “H” in the sender field and did not display her email address”.

Could this mean that Obama probably should have known better than to send Clinton emails over her private server using a pseudonym without marking it classified? This, even though Mills was herself a witness, even a potential subject of, the investigation.

A Clinton campaign spokesman said Friday’s leak – coming three days before the first presidential debate – was politically motivated.

The notes, taken from interviews of top Clinton aides, supporters and others, include details of how a close Clinton confidant explained how the State Department made sure the White House system would not bounce back the emails from the then-secretary of state. The documents revealed that Hillary Clinton’s friend and lawyer, Cheryl Mills, also received an immunity deal for turning over her laptop.

Clinton, in her interview, said she did not know about key records retention policies and whether she was violating rules. In addition to testifying in a deposition taken by the conservative group Judicial Watch in May, Mills also testified for nine hours in September 2015 before the House Benghazi Committee, and was interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in May.

The immunity issue – as an example of why voters doubt Clinton’s trustworthiness – could come up Monday night during the first presidential debate between Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, and Republican rival Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager, told ABC’s “This Week”.

It is unclear exactly how many pages the State Department will have to release as part of that order, but it is expected to be significantly fewer than 1,000 pages.

Maybe Obama should have gotten one of those immunity deals too.

“Ms. Mills was not immunized for any statements she made to the FBI, Congress, or other investigators”, Cummings added, accusing Republicans of making “political hay”‘.

Mills said she wasn’t aware that Platte River Networks, which maintained Clinton’s private server after she left office, deleted any of Clinton’s e-mails in March 2015 and didn’t ask it to do so.