House Committee Recommends Special Counsel Probe Into DOJ, FBI Bias Against Trump theepochtimes.com/house-committe… via @epochtimes
“Our 2016 presidential candidates were not treated equally,” the lawmakers, which also included the House Judiciary Committee wrote in a summary of the investigation.
“Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received unusual treatment from the Obama Justice Department during its investigation of her use of a private email server for sending and receiving classified information.”
The investigation into the Clinton email scandal was “over before it began,” the lawmakers asserted.
They also noted that then-FBI director @Comey admitted to writing a statement exonerating Clinton months before he publicly announced so, and before FBI agents interviewed a number of witnesses, including Clinton.
“Additionally, the FBI was looking for evidence of ‘willful intent’ in Secretary Clinton’s email activities, even though the relevant federal law doesn’t require it,” the lawmakers wrote.
They also noted that Clinton and former president Barack Obama exchanged email communications on her private email server, a fact that came to light after Obama denied knowledge of the server.
DOJ continues to refuse to declassify documents necessary to the investigation despite the president’s request the documents be declassified,” the lawmakers stated.
The lawmakers recommended the appointment of a special counsel to investigate “not only the decisions made and not made during the pendency of these investigations but also the disparate way these two investigations were seemingly conducted.”
They added, “Confidence in venerable institutions like the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation must be restored so the public can trust these institutions.”
