FBI chief to testify over e-mail controversy
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FBI Director James Comey is set to testify before the US House Oversight Committee today about the agency’s decision not to recommend charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of a personal e-mail server while serving at the State Department, the panel said in a statement.
Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said that Congress and the American people have a right to understand the FBI’s investigation in the matter.
US House Speaker Paul Ryan said Clinton may have been given preferential treatment from the FBI.
“It looks like it to me,” Ryan told reporters when asked if the former secretary of state received preferential treatment. He said Comey’s decision defies explanation and leaves many questions unanswered.
Ryan said Clinton is “competing for commander in chief here, so I think there’s a whole accounting that needs to happen.”
“Republican after Republican praised Director Comey’s impeccable record of independence right up until the moment he issued his conclusion,” said the committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland. “The only emergency here is that yet another Republican conspiracy theory is slipping away.”
The FBI is supposed to be insulated from partisanship, with directors appointed to serve 10-year terms under legislation passed in 1976 following J. Edgar Hoover’s extraordinary 48-year tenure. Comey is a Republican first nominated to a senior Justice Department post by George W. Bush, and tapped to lead the FBI in 2013 by President Barack Obama.
But Comey’s declaration that “no charges are appropriate” against Clinton is drawing a deluge of GOP criticism, even though Comey prefaced it by calling Clinton “extremely careless” in her handling of highly sensitive information. He also suggested she sent e-mails with information that was classified at the time, contrary to her previous claims.
“What really just mystifies me is the case he makes and then the conclusion he draws and what bothers me about this is the Clintons really are living above the law. They’re being held by different set of standards. That is clearly what this looks like,” Ryan said.
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