Top Dem denies criminal probe of Clinton’s emails

Source: The Hill

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) is rebutting reports that the State Department has formally requested a federal criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of State.

"I spoke personally to the State Department inspector general on Thursday, and he said he never asked the Justice Department to launch a criminal investigation of Secretary Clinton's email usage,” Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said Friday in a statement.


Instead, State Inspector General Steve A. Linick, “told me the Intelligence Community IG notified the Justice Department and Congress that they identified classified information in a few emails that were part of the [Freedom of Information Act] review, and that none of those emails had been previously marked as classified."

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/249077-top-dem-refutes-reports-of-criminal-probe-of-clintons-emails

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Note also that the NY Times has changed the story, without bothering to let readers know they lied their asses off with the initial story.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/24/1405307/-About-that-NYT-OIG-Clinton-email-story