President Donald Trump’s allies are doubling down on investigations into members of the Obama administration, with two Republican lawmakers calling for a deeper investigation into former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “electronic mail controversy.”
Clinton served as SOS underneath the Obama administration from 2009 to 2013 earlier than operating towards then-Republican presidential candidate Trump in 2016 and dropping.
Whereas in her administrative place, Clinton used a non-public electronic mail server for official company communications. The legally doubtful transfer not solely put hundreds of emails with delicate or labeled data in danger, but additionally shielded her emails from Freedom of Data Act (FOIA) requests.
After a years-long FBI evaluate, then-Director James Comey advisable that no costs be filed. However Republicans, fueled by current revelations that Obama and Clinton may have knowingly fabricated the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, at the moment are reiterating their considerations concerning the thoroughness of the Clinton investigation.
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In that vein, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Home Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., launched a letter Tuesday addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel.
In it, the lawmakers urged Patel to uncover and evaluate sure supplies stashed away that would shed additional mild on how the earlier FBI “mishandled” the Clinton investigation.
“Comey’s FBI shockingly didn’t evaluate and exploit proof in its personal possession, regardless that they admitted in written memos the knowledge was essential to conduct a ‘thorough and full investigation,” the lawmakers wrote. “We refuse to permit this dereliction of obligation to proceed.”
They identified that the omission, whether or not an oversight or coverup, is yet one more instance of the FBI’s “failure to impartially conduct its legislation enforcement and intelligence mission,” given the prior intelligence neighborhood’s disparate remedy of Trump.
“We all know you’ll not equally ignore proof in your company’s possession, regardless of the place its exploitation or conclusions would possibly lead,” the lawmakers instructed Patel. “[We] look ahead to receiving an replace on forthcoming steps taken by the FBI to right this historic investigative and nationwide safety failure.”
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