FBI to Release Notes From Hillary Clinton Interview
The FBI will soon release notes from its interview with Hillary Clinton last month regarding her use of a private, unsecured, unauthorized server.
CNN reported that the release of the notes to members of Congress who requested them could happen as early as Monday night.
FBI investigators met with Clinton on July 2 for over three hours, according to Director James Comey. Three days later, Comey announced that the FBI would not be recommending charges against the former secretary of state.
The director revealed in testimony before the House Oversight Committee later that same week that Clinton had not testified under oath and no transcript was available of what she had told investigators.
Comey confirmed that the FBI agents did take notes of the meeting, which House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, formally requested in writing that same day.
Comey was specifically asked by Chaffetz if Clinton lied regarding her private email server.
He responded that she did not lie to the FBI, presumably during her interview. The representative followed up asking if she lied about her server to the American people.
“That’s a question I’m not qualified to answer. I can speak about what she said to the FBI,” Comey replied.
Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., later questioned the director about specific statements Clinton made, during which Comey made clear that the former secretary of state had not been honest with the American people.
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Here is the transcript:
Gowdy: “Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her emails, either sent or received. Was that true?”
Comey: “That’s not true. There were a small number of portion markings on, I think, three of the documents.”
Gowdy: “Secretary Clinton said, ‘I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email, there is no classified material.’ Was that true?”
Comey: “There was classified material emailed.”
Gowdy: “Secretary Clinton said she used just one device. Was that true?”
Comey: “She used multiple devices during the four years of her term as secretary of state.”
Gowdy: “Secretary Clinton said all work-related emails were returned to the State Department. Was that true?”
Comey: “No, we found work-related emails, thousands, that were not returned.”
According to a Bloomberg Politics poll released last week, 58 percent of Americans are bothered by Clinton’s use of an unsecured email server, which is a higher percentage than those upset by her actions regarding the Sept. 11, 2012, Bengahzi attacks (55 percent), or possible public corruption issues in relation to the Clinton Foundation (53 percent).
On Friday, Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, dismissed the email scandal as “the biggest load of bull.”
He claimed that his wife was never intentionally careless with national security and that the various rankings of confidential information were “too complicated.”
When he was president, Clinton was impeached on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice stemming from the Monica Lewinsky affair, though he was ultimately acquitted in the Senate. (For more from the author of “FBI to Release Notes From Hillary Clinton Interview” please click HERE)
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