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GOP senator calls on FBI to loosen hold on Clinton documents
Associated Press ^ | Aug 31, 2016 6:05 PM EDT | Michael Biesecker

Posted on 08/31/2016 3:07:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked the FBI on Wednesday to correct what he called its “mistake” of restricting access to unclassified files from its closed investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, urged FBI Director James Comey to send his committee any unclassified records involving the investigation into the Democratic presidential nominee. Grassley set a deadline of Friday.

Responding to requests from GOP House members, the FBI on Aug. 16 delivered two large binders containing both classified and unclassified documents to a secure room on Capitol Hill typically reserved for the nation’s most closely guarded secrets. Documents containing classified information are included with those marked by the FBI as “Unclassified/For Official Use.”

Grassley said that by commingling the documents and locking them away, the FBI violated an executive order dictating the proper handling classified materials. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: comey; fbi; grassley; hillary

1 posted on 08/31/2016 3:07:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Cut their funding by 50% until they do


2 posted on 08/31/2016 3:09:51 PM PDT by Mr. K (Trump will win NY state - choke on that HilLIARy)
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To: Olog-hai

“...the FBI violated an executive order dictating the proper handling classified materials.”

Since when does the FBI worry about laws??? Only when someone tries to apply them to criminal Democrats...


3 posted on 08/31/2016 3:15:31 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Olog-hai
Mistake? With the 150 TB of dossier info the Clintons have on anyone who can possibly hurt them?
4 posted on 08/31/2016 3:52:13 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (In Today's America Feelings Are The New Truth)
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To: Olog-hai

Senator? WTF is that?

Haven’t had any of those in years... aren’t they like skate keys?


5 posted on 08/31/2016 6:01:49 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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