Posted on 08/14/2019 9:57:58 PM PDT by bitt
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Dear Chairman Grassley and Chairman Johnson:
We write to provide you with information that we developed as part of your investigation into the mishandling of highly classified information and operation of a non-government server for official business by Secretary Clinton and her associates. Statements made in a joint bipartisan staff interview by intelligence community officials involved in the classification review raise particular concerns that senior State Department officials sought to downgrade classified material found on the server.
Your investigation began in March 2015 with an initial focus on whether State Department officials were aware of Secretary Clinton’s private server and the associated national security risks, as well as whether State Department officials attempted to downgrade classified material within emails found on that server. For example, in August 2015, Senator Grassley wrote to the State Department about reports that State Department FOIA specialists believed some of Secretary Clinton’s emails should be subject to the (b)(1), “Classified Information” exemption whereas attorneys within the Office of the Legal Advisor preferred to use the (b)(5), “Deliberative Process” exemption. Whistleblower career employees within the State Department also reportedly notified the Intelligence Community that others at State involved in the review process deliberately changed classification determinations to protect Secretary Clinton.1 Your inquiry later extended to how the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) managed their investigation of the mishandling of classified information.
A current focus of the investigation is the highly classified appendix to the DOJ Inspector General’s report on these matters, which DOJ provided to Congress on July 11, 2018. That appendix raised a number of serious questions because, as explained on page 154 of the unclassified DOJ IG report, the FBI decided not to seek access to certain highly classified
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I submit a BOOM for your consideration..
Today, Aug 15th, is going to be a big day.
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3 years too late azzwipe. Maybe if you would have had a backbone when Comey cleared Hillary despite an open and shut case right after the AG met Bill on the tarmac in secret, or maybe when Trump was sworn in... Maybe we wouldn’t have lost the house.
Just shut up and go away Grassley, we both know nothing will come of yet another request for yet another investigation.
I just completed reading the letter and the exhibits. This will have significant resonance today when it hits the streets. Louie Gohmert has been banging this drum for some time. Now I see why. The failure to force Combetta to testify and his unwillingness to do so is stunning. Horowitz stated in his letter he didn’t have the authority to compel it, but somebody in DOJ should have subpoenaed him. Unbelievable.
The Chinese have Hillary’s yoga lessons and Chelsea‘s wedding information!
Lol
Hey look a new kind of troll
So we started with the “it’s never gonna happen”
to “it should haver happened sooner”
Can’t wait till we get to the “we knew it happen all along”
Pathetic
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