TIL Desk/World/Washington-The FBI has submitted to Congress documents related to its investigation into email scandal of Hillary Clinton when she was the Secretary of State and defended its decision not to criminally charge her.
The report to the Congress, among others, includes notes from the interviews of Clinton, 68, and other witnesses in the investigation. “Ultimately, the FBI did not recommend prosecution based on an assessment of the facts and a review of how these statutes have been charged in the past,” said Jason V Herring from the FBI in his letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
At the same time, the FBI said this is not to say that someone else who engaged in this type of conduct would face no consequences for handling classified information in a similar manner if they were still a government employee. “For example, there are potentially severe administrative consequences within the FBI for security violations involving the mishandling of classified information, up to and including security clearance revocation and dismissal,” he said.
