House panel asks prosecutor to probe deleted Clinton emails
Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) The Republican chairman of the House committee investigating Hillary Clintons email practices asked a federal prosecutor Tuesday to determine whether she and others working with her played a role in the deletion of thousands of her emails by a Colorado technology firm overseeing her private computer server in 2015.
The written request by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and obtained by The Associated Press, is based on recent revelations from the FBI, which decided not to press for criminal charges after its own yearlong investigation.
Clinton and her longtime aide and lawyer, Cheryl Mills, told FBI investigators during questioning that they had no knowledge of the technology companys deletions. Those occurred separately from the email deletions overseen by the former secretary of states legal team last year before she turned over 33,000 work-related messages to the State Department. The FBIs recently released summaries of its investigation did not offer any evidence contradicting their statements.
In a separate letter also obtained by the AP, Chaffetz the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman warned the Denver-based tech firm, Platte River Networks, that one of its engineers who deleted Clintons electronic files last year could face federal charges of obstructing evidence for erasing the material. Thats because the congressional inquiry into the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, had issued a formal order to preserve such records.
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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2016/09/06/house_panel_asks_prosecutor_to_probe_deleted_clinton_emails/
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,402 posts)So, now, like with Benghazi, will keep investigating and investigating and................
Andy823
(11,495 posts)Millions and millions of tax payer dollars being "wasted" on another republican "investigation" when it has already been decided there was nothing their to prosecute.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They are just beating a dead horse and the only voters who give a crap about this are people who would never vote for Hillary anyway. They aren't going to accomplish anything by this investigation except for wasting more taxpayer money on another stupid ass witchhunt.
rtracey
(2,062 posts)Yes, until the democrats are voted back into the majority in the House and Senate. Face facts, the right wing will NOT investigate one of their own..talk emails, talk all the missing bush e-mails, talk server, talk Colon Powell and Condi Rice servers. Talk Benghazi, talk the other consulate and embassy attacks on the GOP administration... they GOP are a rigged, treasonous bunch of racist pricks and will not investigate their own....
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Sweetest kick in the ass for Gowdy & Chaffetz would be a House upset in Nov.
Strip that over abused power from those Repub shitheads.
They are useless.
jmowreader
(50,552 posts)You have a perfectly good bribery scandal that's about ready to tear your party apart. Now, if I was you I would get off my ass and investigate that son-of-a-bitch Trump so I could get a candidate in there that, just maybe, won't get arrested the day before the election.
Since I'm not you, I hope you keep the bastard on your ticket and let him drag your entire party into a cesspool of hate and filth.
Kathy M
(1,242 posts)can the House Panel be investigated as to why they want another investigation that will be worthless
Sugarcoated
(7,721 posts)fuel. The 30k erased emails.
NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)If they want to start another witch hunt investigation it needs to come out of THEIR paychecks. Sick of them wasting tax payer money on this happy horseshit.