Posted on 08/18/2016 1:15:17 PM PDT by drewh
Members of the House Judiciary Committee are set to question FBI officials next month about allegations of perjury involving Hillary Clinton's conflicting statements to Congress last year.
Witnesses at the hearing could include FBI Director James Comey, according to USA Today, which first reported the panel's plans.
A Judiciary Committee spokeswoman confirmed the hearing to the Washington Examiner and said lawmakers plan to approach the issue at an FBI oversight hearing the panel holds each year.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, joined Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the Oversight Committee, in a push to outline the case against Clinton earlier this week.
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Goodlatte and Chaffetz detailed four of the Democratic nominee's assertions that clashed with evidence Comey revealed to the oversight panel last month, including her insistence that no material marked classified had passed through her network.
Comey testified that his agents had recovered at least three emails bearing classification markings from the multiple devices Clinton used to communicate while serving as secretary of state.
The hearing comes as the Oversight Committee looks into the FBI's decision to clear Clinton and her staff of all criminal wrongdoing after a year-long probe into their private email use. FBI agents provided Chaffetz's staff with access to classified documents from their closed investigative file this week.
However, Chaffetz said Wednesday that many of the records were so highly classified that he could not view them with his current security clearance.
Congressional Republicans have remained skeptical of the outcome of Clinton's case given the "extreme carelessness" with which she handled sensitive material, according to the FBI's findings.
(snore) To what end? A strongly worded rebuke?
To keep hammering the facts.
They’ll punt. They always do.
Can’t get enough of John Conyers
What a waste of time. If they can’t get her on the Clinton Foundation dealings, why bother?
- Warren or Sanders gets in
- Obama pardons her on January 19th
- The Clintons continue getting pay-for-play access through their Foundation
My theory
Kabuki Theater.
Normally she would just give them the finger and Congress would roll over and be dead. In an election year, however just holding hearings is a good deal.
Nothing burger with a side of nothing and diet air to drink.
Maybe she will get a fatal UTI from her foley catheter from liberty medical
I hate to say nothing will come of this. I really do!
But, as we’ve all seen over and over again... Nothing will come of this. It’s a circus without any bells or whistles.
Snore. Lock up both parties.
Yeah, no kidding? It seems they can commit their treasonous corruption right in our faces and nothing ever really happens to them.
Yep......... the other side will just say it’s partisan politics.
The GOP congress has proven over and over that they are all bark and no bite. Lots of hearings that do NOTHING.
Waste of time. Investigate the Clinton Foundation and her time at State. Connect the dots.
These gutless cowards in Traitorcongress will do ...................................................................................... nothing.
Congress can't impeach or convict anyone who doesn't hold office.
It's also what Pelosi would shame Boehner into not doing, claiming it was a cheap stunt not worthy of the House.
-PJ
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