Ryan: GOP to ask Comey to testify on Clinton email probe
He also tweeted later in the evening about Clinton, saying, “I don’t think the voters will forget the rigged system that allowed Crooked Hillary to get away with ‘murder'”.
The agency’s yearlong investigation found that she did not, as she claimed, turn over all her work-related messages for release.
“There has never been any man or woman more qualified for this office than Hillary Clinton, ever”.
“Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case”.
The big question for Republicans is whether their presumptive presidential nominee will be able to prosecute the case effectively against Clinton since he is still at war with fellow Republicans and has little in the way of campaign funds to pay for TV ads against her.
Did the emails contain markings demonstrating that they contained classified material?
The FBI’s recommendation against criminal charges in the Hillary Clinton email matter drew immediate comparisons to last year’s high-profile case in which the agency took the opposite position and pursued the prosecution of then-CIA Director David Petraeus.
“These [classified] chains involved Secretary Clinton both sending emails about those matters and receiving emails from others about the same matters. The world hangs on every word our president says and Donald Trump is simply unqualified and temperamentally unfit to be our president and commander-in-chief”, said Clinton.
She repeatedly had said that no email she sent or received was marked classified.
A day later, Clinton left her home in Washington and drove a few miles to Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters for her long-awaited interview. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification.
“That will resonate with many people”, said Zaino. But that’s not the only standard for judging how officials handle sensitive material, he added.
Standing on the sidelines, her aides, who had been there in the bitterly cold days of Iowa in 2008, watched nearly in disbelief that their journey could have led them here. You don’t have the luxury of just saying whatever pops into your head.
But he acknowledged that “government has learned a lesson when it comes to public officials using email”.
Clinton said her administration will rewrite the rules and crack down on companies that ship jobs overseas and profits to go with them. “It was on property guarded by the Secret Service and there were no security breaches”. “The use of that server, which started with my husband, certainly proved to be effective and secure”.
The investigation has dogged Clinton’s campaign for the past year. “We have seen nothing but stonewalling and dishonesty from Secretary Clinton on this issue, and that means there are a lot more questions that need to be answered”.
“The FBI’s recommendation is surprising and confusing”, Chaffetz said.
The FBI has been investigating whether Clinton broke the law as a result of a personal email server kept in her NY home while she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
He said evidence would be hard to find because hackers are sophisticated and can cover their tracks.
A centerpiece of Clinton’s plan is an executive order that would give federal student loan borrowers a three-month break from making payments.
Comey did not mention names, but a Romanian hacker who called himself Guccifer accessed and later leaked emails from Sidney Blumenthal, an outside adviser to Clinton who regularly communicated with her.
US President Barack Obama has thrown his weight behind Hillary Clinton as he likened the presidential race between the former Secretary of State and real estate tycoon Donald Trump to a choice between “future and imaginary past”. Here, Comey says that classified information did cross her server on many occasions.
Clinton’s personal email server, which she relied on exclusively for government and personal business, has shadowed her campaign since The Associated Press revealed its existence in March 2015.