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 in opposition to 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 1000’s of emails with delicate or labeled info in danger, but in addition shielded her emails from Freedom of Data Act (FOIA) requests.
After a years-long FBI evaluate, then-Director James Comey really useful that no costs be filed. However Republicans, fueled by current revelations that Obama and Clinton might have knowingly fabricated the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, are actually reiterating their issues in regards to 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 did not evaluate and exploit proof in its personal possession, though they admitted in written memos the data was essential to conduct a ‘thorough and full investigation,” the lawmakers wrote. “We refuse to permit this dereliction of responsibility to proceed.”
They identified that the omission, whether or not an oversight or coverup, is one more instance of the FBI’s “failure to impartially conduct its regulation enforcement and intelligence mission,” given the prior intelligence neighborhood’s disparate therapy 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 appropriate this historic investigative and nationwide safety failure.”
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