Report on FBI's Clinton email probe
coming next week: Inspector General
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[June 08, 2018]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A report by
the Federal Bureau of Investigation's internal watchdog into the
agency's handling of an enquiry into the management of emails by former
U.S. presidential candidate Hilary Clinton will be released next week,
the agency said on Thursday.
U.S. Congressional committees are also currently investigating the FBI's
handling of the enquiry in 2016.
The U.S. Justice Department's Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, said
in a letter that most of the process to sign off on the report and
protect classified information it may contain "is now complete, and we
anticipate releasing the report on June 14, 2018."
He also said in the letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck
Grassley that he will appear at the committee's June 18 hearing on the
FBI's actions in advance of the 2016 presidential election.
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The House of Representatives Judiciary and Oversight Committees also
announced on Thursday they will hold a hearing the next day on June 19.
The Inspector General's report will conclude an examination into former
FBI Director James Comey’s statements in August 2016 that no charges
would be brought against Clinton and his subsequent announcement days
before the election that the FBI was re-opening its investigation into
her use of a private email server while Secretary of State.
The agency was concerned that Clinton's use of a non-government computer
server may have jeopardized classified information.
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Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz testifies
during a Judiciary Committee hearing into alleged Russian meddling
in the 2016 election on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 26,
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The report also is expected to address whether active and retired
FBI agents in New York leaked information about investigations of
the Clinton Foundation charitable organization and the discovery of
a trove of Clinton-related emails shortly before the November 2016
election.
Law enforcement officials previously told Reuters information about
the email trove was leaked to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani,
an adviser to the Trump campaign who subsequently discussed the
contents on Fox News Channel days before Comey informed Congress of
the discovery.
Horowitz’s office has sought to determine whether the leaks
influenced Comey’s decision 11 days before the election to announce
the reopening of the Clinton email investigation.
(Reporting by Lisa Lambert and Mark Hosenball; editing by Clive
McKeef)
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