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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 08:36 AM Aug 2016

House panel to probe claims of Clinton perjury

Source: The Hill

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are planning to press officials from the FBI in a hearing scheduled for next month on allegations that Hillary Clinton committed perjury.

A GOP committee aide confirmed to The Hill that lawmakers intend to question the FBI about the lawmakers’ charges during an oversight hearing planned at some point in September. The move ups the ante for Republicans, who have pushed investigators to open a case into perjury charges against Clinton since the Justice Department announced last month that it would not indict the former secretary of State or her aides for mishandling classified information.

Earlier this week, Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) wrote to the U.S. attorney in Washington with detailed allegations of how Clinton appeared to have misspoken about key details of her email setup before the House Select Committee on Benghazi last October.

During a marathon appearance before that panel, Clinton made at least four concrete statements about her bespoke email arrangement that the FBI later proved to be false, the lawmakers claim. For instance, Clinton claimed at the time that none of the messages on her machine were marked as classified, though bureau Director James Comey later asserted that at least three bore some markings indicating they were sensitive.

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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/291813-house-panel-to-probe-claims-of-clinton-perjury

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forest444

(5,902 posts)
1. But no chance of probing leaks by Chaffetz, Dowdy Doody, and Grand Theft Issa.
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 08:41 AM
Aug 2016

Even of classified material.

That would be too "partisan."

apcalc

(4,461 posts)
2. Lemme guess...same house jerks as usual....
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 08:41 AM
Aug 2016

Chaffetz, Jordan, Gowdy, Issa....others?I have to be leaving some out.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
3. So Bengahzi didn't work, the contents of the emails didn't work, the email server crap ....
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 08:44 AM
Aug 2016

... didn't work, and so now it is HRC's perjury about something?

Laurian

(2,593 posts)
4. Any chance they'll ever spend their time and our
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 08:47 AM
Aug 2016

taxpayer money doing something constructive? They're not legislators, they're tabloid journalists.

Laser102

(816 posts)
6. According to the rules, all classified documents must have a classified heading. All of them. Not
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 09:00 AM
Aug 2016

small "C" at the beginning of a paragraph, but a header. When questioned Comey admitted that these documents did not contain the proper classification. She didn't send them but received them. Good luck to those idiots.

George II

(67,782 posts)
9. They've got to fill the next 82 days win negative Clinton "news".
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 09:33 AM
Aug 2016

The way things are going this fall, they've got to do a lot more in order to save the Senate and maybe even the House.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
10. They must like dead horses
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 10:27 AM
Aug 2016

because they keep flogging this one. It's a stand-in for they got nothin'. No jobs bill, no prison reform bill, no immigration reform bill, just plain ol' nothin'.

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