FBI Says Evidence Missing in Congress' Probe on How Feds Handled Clinton Email Investigation, Report

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Source: Law & Crime

by Alberto Luperon | 3:16 pm, January 21st, 2018

The FBI claimed that Congress is missing evidence in a probe over how the feds handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation, said reporter Sharyl Attkisson on Sunday.

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The House Oversight Committee and House Judiciary Committee are running inquiries. Neither they nor the FBI immediately responded to a Law&Crime request for comment on Sunday.

The Clinton email scandal might seem like it happened a long time ago, but Congress still has their eye on it. The Republican-led committees announced their probe last October.

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UPDATE:

FBI did not save officials’ texts during key period in Trump probe, senator says

By Devlin Barrett January 21 at 1:59 PM

The FBI did not retain text messages exchanged by two senior officials involved in the probes of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for a five-month period ending the day a special counsel was appointed to investigate possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to a new congressional letter.

The letter from Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, to FBI Director Christopher A. Wray indicates the Justice Department has turned over to lawmakers a new batch of texts from senior FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page. The messages have not been made public.

As The Washington Post reported in December, Strzok was removed from the Trump probe after internal investigators discovered he and Page, who were romantically involved , exchanged anti-Trump, pro-Clinton texts during investigations of both presidential candidates. Later that month, the Justice Department provided Congress with hundreds of pages of messages. Republicans said the texts revealed political bias at the bureau’s highest levels.

Johnson’s weekend letter said his committee received 384 pages of new Strzok-Page texts late Friday. The lawmaker is asking the FBI to explain in more detail why it “did not preserve text messages between Ms. Page and Mr. Strzok between approximately December 14, 2016 and May 17, 2017.’’

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