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Related: About this forumGrassley: FBI could leak Clinton email investigation
Grassley: FBI could leak Clinton email investigationJason Noble, jnoble2@dmreg.com 11:38 a.m. CDT April 22, 2016
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley suggested on Friday that the FBI might leak reports of its investigation into presidential candidate Hillary Clintons use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Grassley, Iowas senior senator and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said an anonymous and unauthorized release of FBI investigative materials could result if officials at the agency believed prosecution of Clinton was stymied for political reasons.
Is there going to be political interference? If theres enough evidence to prosecute, will there be political interference? Grassley wondered aloud during a breakfast meeting with the Des Moines A.M. Rotary club on Friday. And if theres political interference, then I assume that somebody in the FBI is going to leak these reports and its either going to have an effect politically or its going to lead to prosecution if theres enough evidence.
The senior senators musing came in response to a long answer to a very general question from one of the Rotarians about the status on inquiries into the email server and Clintons handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
Both issues for years have plagued Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential candidate.
When asked by Radio Iowa reporter O. Kay Henderson after the breakfast if he was suggesting the FBI should leak investigative findings, Grassley expounded on his comment.
I wouldnt be encouraging it because if its a violation of law, I cant be encouraging a violation of law, he said. This is kind of my own opinion, this is something Ive heard.
Several congressional panels including Grassleys Judiciary Committee have looked into various aspects of the email controversy. The FBI has been investigating the matter for months as well, and reportedly has several dozen agents working on it.
A former Clinton staffer is cooperating with that investigation, and its believed Clinton herself will be questioned.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/22/grassley-fbi-could-leak-clinton-email-investigation/83385362/
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Grassley: FBI could leak Clinton email investigation (Original Post)
FourScore
Apr 2016
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FourScore
(9,704 posts)1. kick
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)2. Republicans and 'progressives': We SURE HOPE the FBI leaks info... but only if it's bad...
... if it's good, we'll claim the FBI was in the tank for Clinton...
FourScore
(9,704 posts)3. It won't be good. n/t
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)4. An Inconvenient Truth