Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Tuesday called on the FBI to release all information gathered in its year-long investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state.
In a statement released hours after FBI director James Comey announced that Clinton was “careless” in handling classified information over email but that he would not recommend criminal charges against her, Grassley wrote that Comey had to make all evidence public or risk “the impression that the FBI was pulling punches.”
“Even Director Comey said there should be extraordinary transparency,” Grassley said. “That means more than simply giving the public a brief of the facts. It should include the actual evidence so the public can make an educated decision on its own about the judgment and decision-making of all the senior officials involved.”
Comey said he publicly addressed the FBI’s findings in a hastily scheduled press conference because of the “intense public interest” in the case.
Other Republican officials were quick to criticize the results of the investigation, with Donald Trump calling them proof of a “rigged” system and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) saying the decision not to bring charges against Clinton “defies explanation.”
Read Grassley’s full statement below courtesy of Des Moines Register reporter Jason Noble.
. @ChuckGrassley calls on FBI to release investigative information gathered in Clinton probe pic.twitter.com/OHOD41Y2U1
— Jason Noble (@jasonnobleDMR) July 5, 2016
So they can get to do another investigation. Rather than actually do anything real.
Why? Why should they, Chuck? So you can waste more of taxpayer money on another “investigation”? Asshole.
So. Is Grassley[1] down in the polls?
[1]My spell checker desparately wants to change it to “grossly”.
Edit. The Grass man is in a dead heat.
Sure, they’ll release it to Supreme Court Justice Garland.
Senator Grassley has really become a shill hasn’t he? He better get used to this vast left-wing conspiracy. Heh. So, the FBI, a law enforcement agency, should release confidential information. He might want to check FOIA on this…that should keep him busy for a while.