Ryan: FBI played politics with release of Clinton probe

They outlined their case against her in an August letter that showed how Clinton’s past statements differed from what the FBI found during its investigation.

Some of the Federal Bureau of Investigation questioning concerned a 2011 exchange in which Clinton directed one of her advisers, Jake Sullivan, to transmit a set of talking points and turn it “into nonpaper w/no identifying heading and send nonsecure”.

According to Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin, Clinton “often” visited the State Department’s eighth floor balcony to read emails on her mobile devices.

In addition, she asserted that she had been operating under the assumption that the “C” printed on documents referenced their alphabetical order, instead of its actual meaning: “Classified”.

“The Department of Justice, in my view, is run by political appointees of the President”. The most significant revelation from the FBI’s Clinton interview notes, the subject of Mark Alexander’s column, “Clinton the Consummate “Congenital Liar”, is not the questions investigators asked Clinton, but the questions they did NOT ask her”.

The calls for investigations came after FBI Director James Comey declined to recommend charges against Clinton over her emails.

The FBI in July closed the agency’s yearlong investigation into whether Clinton and her top aides mishandled classified information that flowed through the private email server located in the basement of her NY home. I can’t believe that they would do what is such a patently political move.

The FBI said it was later able to find some of the e-mails, but it did not say how many had been deleted or whether they were included in the 60,000 e-mails that Clinton said she had sent and received as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. She also claimed that she was depending on her staff to not send classified information to her private email during her tenure at the State department. “This conspiracy theory is already debunked by the Justice Department’s review”.

Clinton stated that when her BlackBerry device malfunctioned, her aides would assist her in obtaining a new BlackBerry, and, after moving to a new device, her old SIM cards were disposed of by her aides.

The email archive laptop and the thumb drive are now unaccounted for, as are eight Blackberries and two of five iPads that Clinton used to access her email account.

The State Department said the “email does not change the facts that have previously been made clear about the Benghazi attacks”. It provides an incomplete and possibly misleading picture of the facts without the other unclassified information that is still locked away from the public and even most congressional staff.

“People who have nothing to hide don’t smash phones with hammers”, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told a crowd in North Carolina Tuesday night.