House panel asks prosecutor to probe deleted Clinton emails

The FBI’s recently released summaries of its investigation did not offer any evidence contradicting their statements.

Days after The New York Times first reported that Clinton had used a private email system as secretary of state, the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, asked that her emails be preserved and subpoenaed those that were related to the attacks. Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said: “This is yet another example of the congressman abusing his office by wasting further taxpayer resources on partisan attacks”.

Hillary Clinton has been obsessed with “conspiracy theories” since the mid-1990s, when she accused a “vast right-wing conspiracy” for smearing her philandering husband with accusations of infidelity. Those occurred separately from the email deletions overseen by the former secretary of state’s legal team past year before she turned over 33,000 work-related messages to the State Department.

The FBI documents – released under pressure of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits – assure that Clinton will be grappling with the issue of her e-mails as the presidential campaign enters the final stretch into the November 8 election.

But the agency took an unusual step in releasing dozens of pages summarizing its findings on Friday, citing the need for transparency.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Forget, too, the many requests from Doug Band in which the Clinton Foundation honcho hoped his quos (hefty donations to the Clinton Foundation) would translate into quids (e.g., special access to the secretary). “After her private server was revealed last March, her staff deleted all the emails and wiped it clean using a software created to prevent any recovery, called BleachBit”, he said.

For her to argue to the American people that she didn’t know how to classify information, that she didn’t know what classified information was, for her to argue that to the Federal Bureau of Investigation – it’s not only untrue, but it’s laughable and it’s insulting to the American people’s intelligence.

The report said that the engineer “was aware of the existence of the (Benghazi committee) preservation request and the fact that it meant he should not disturb Clinton’s email data on the PRN server”.

Chaffetz on Tuesday also issued a letter to Platte River Networks, warning the Denver-based firm that the unidentified technician may also have violated the same federal statutes.

The FBI said Platte River personnel had a conference call with Mills and David Kendall, Clinton’s longtime personal lawyer, in late March 2015. Chaffetz said he will seek to examine the work ticket.

Chaffetz, along with House Judicial Committee Chairman Bob GoodlatteBob GoodlatteOversight chairman asks FBI to investigate Clinton role in deleted email archive Obama’s use of clemency power sparks criticism House Freedom Caucus should support justice reform this fall MORE (R-Va.), has also issued a formal referral to Phillips asking him to investigate whether Clinton perjured herself during her marathon testimony before the Benghazi panel.

That passage of the report – and many others – led to widespread criticism of Clinton’s email practices and her statements defending them. As secretary of state, she likely read classified documents with (C) markings every single day.