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Senators: Let's see that FBI memo on Hillary probe - WND po.st/ErZvWc via @worldnetdaily
A May 2016 FBI memo, the Republicans point out, states the information was “necessary” to complete the investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified information on her private email server, the Daily Caller reported.
However, the FBI declined to review the material before closing the Clinton probe in 2016, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz found in a report released last year.
The letter to Barr requesting the information was signed by Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the chairmen of the Senate Judiciary, Finance and Homeland Security Committees, respectively.
The senators write that Horowitz’s finding “raises significant issues associated with the FBI’s failure to review certain highly classified information in support of its Midyear investigation.”
They note that the Justice Department has claimed it could not brief the Senate Judiciary Committee on the meeting because doing so would interfere with Mueller’s investigation.
“Now that the Special Counsel’s investigation has concluded, we are unaware of any legitimate basis upon which the Department can refuse to answer the Judiciary Committee’s inquiries,” the senators wrote.
The FBI’s Clinton probe was concluded in July 2016 with an unusual public announcement by James Comey. He said that while Clinton was “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information “no reasonable prosecutor” would try a case against the then-Democratic candidate.
But the inspector general said that toward the end of the Clinton probe, the FBI “considered obtaining permission from the Department to review certain classified materials that may have included information potentially relevant to the Midyear investigation.
It was former FBI agent Peter Strzok who changed the language describing Clinton’s actions in a memo exonerating her from “grossly negligent” to “extremely careless.” Under the Espionage Act, “grossly negligent” handling of classified information is a criminal violation.
Strzok later was part of Mueller’s investigative team but was dismissed when text messages were revealed showing his intent to prevent Trump’s election and to undermine him in case he were elected.
