From the Congressional Record

From YouTube transcribed by katykarter from Congressional Testimony in October 2016

A few bits of the congressional investigation and James Comey's testimony within the Hillary Clinaton email scandal.
The FBI, who conducted the "investigation" of the Democratic candidate for President, and their director, Obama-appointee James Comey are grilled by Rep. Chaffetts and others regarding the "irregularities" of the FBI's investigation.

First is Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-CA) in his upbraiding of Comey over the legal immunity from prosecution given to Clinton's aides on destroying evidence and obstruction of justice.

These individuals destroyed documents persuant or took it out of Federal Custody, persuant to our subpoena, our discovery, and as a result they committed crimes...The DoJ does not grant immunity without checking with Federal law enforcement to see if it impacts ongoing investigations.

(Comey) "I don't think anyone was given transactional immunity..."

Oh, really? Well we are not allowed to make your immunities public, but I'm going to take the privelege of making one part of it public. I read them. You gave immunity from destruction to both those attorneys, not just turning them the documents over but specifically destruction. You did the same thing with these other two individuals Brian and Paul. You gave them immunity from destruction.


Rep. John Ratcliffe, (R-TX) reads from the FBI's own report on the probable cause to investigate Clinton:


The FBI didn't have the Clinton's personal Apple server used for Hillary Clinton work emails. That was never located so the FBI could never examine it.
An Apple Mac book lap top and thumb drive that contained Hillary Clinton's email archives  was lost so the FBI never examined that.
Two Blackberry devices provided to the FBI didn' t have sim cards or SD data cards.
13 Hillary Clinton personal mobile devices were lost, discarded or destroyed with a hammer so the FBI clearly didn't examine those
Various server backups were deleted over time so the FBI didn't examine that
After the State Department and my colleague Mr. Gowdy here notified Mrs. Clinton that her records would be sought by the Benghazi Committee, copies of her emails on the lap tops of both of her lawyers Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were wiped clean with bleach bit so the FBI didn't review that
After those emails were subpoena'd Hillary Clinton's email archive was also permanantly deleted from the Platte River Network with bleach bit so the FBI didn' t  review that
And also after the subpoena backups of the Platte River Network were manually deleted.
...collectively they scream obstruction of justice. To ignore them really leads not only reasonable prosecutors but reasonable people to question whether the decision to prosecute was already decided.


Understatement of the Century

This summation by a member of the Committee

Director Comey in your opening comments you said this was an unusual case, I would say that's the understatement of the year:

Husband of the subject meets with the Attorney General three days before Secretary Clinton is interviewed by the FBI. 9 people get to sit in with Secretary Clinton during that interview, one of those was her chief of staff Cheryl Mills who was a subject of the investigation. 5 people get some kind of immunity yet no one is prosecuted. 3 of those people getting immunity take  the 5th in front of congress and one of them doesn't even bother to show up when he's subpoena'd, supposed to be at that very chair you're sitting at...

The Attorney General announces she's going to follow your recommendations even though she
doesn't know what those recommendations are- the only time she's ever done that.


Rep. Jason Chaffets drills FBI Director Comey for the truth regarding corruption, collusion and cover up.


Hillary Clinton did come to posess documents and materials containing classified information via email on these unsecured servers, correct?

"That is correct"

Did Hillary Clinton lie?

"To the FBI? We have no basis to conclude that she lied to the FBI"

Did she lie to the public?

"Thats a question I'm not qualified to answer. I can speak about what she said to the FBI"

Did Hillary Clinton lie under oath?

"Not to the FBI, not on a case we were working"

Did you review the documents where Jim Jordan asked her specifically, and she said quote ' there was nothing marked classified on my emails either sent or recieved' end quote?

"I don't remember reviewing that particular testimoney but I'm aware of that being said though"

Did the FBI investigate her statements under oath on this topic?

"Not to my knowledge. I don' t think there's been a referral from Congress"

Do you need a referral from Congress to investigate her statements under oath?

"Sure do"

You'll have one. You'll have one in the next few hours.

Did Hillary Clinton break the law?

"In connection with her use of the email server?..my judgement is she did not"

You're just not able to prosecute it, or did Hillary Clinton break the law?

"Well, I don' t want to give an overly lawyerly answer, but the question I always look at is is there evidence that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt that somebody engaged in conduct that violated a criminal statute. And my judgement here is there is not"


In the timeline of Congressional testimony and the Presidential elections of 2016, Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner is under fire for using a private email server during her tenure at State,  and conducting State Department business on it. 

Many politicians and federal employees such as State use private email servers, but they are forbidden to put official business on them and are strictly forbidden to posses, view, send or receive communications marked classified (and there are different levels of classification to be sure), over these unsecured email servers, potentially exposing sensitive materials to unsecure communications and unauthorized possession by foreign or enemy intelligence services.

 Under the espionage act, it is a crime to allow classified materials onto unsecured servers and other mediums through negligence, incompetence and can result in criminal charges and ultimately espionage charges.

It is extremely questionable and disturbing that the FBI, after all the "unusual" aspects of this case chose not to pursue criminal charges for and in fact granted immunity to those who were responsible for the crimes being committed and not charging Secretary of State Clinton with knowingly allowing subpoena'd evidence to be destroyed among other "crimes".