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Bill USA

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Fri Aug 19, 2016, 05:20 PM Aug 2016

House Republicans outline their case against H. Clinton 4 perjury in letter to U.S. Attorney 4 D.C.

http://www.businessinsider.com/house-republicans-clinton-perjury-case-2016-8


House Republicans on Monday outlined their perjury case against Hillary Clinton in a letter to the US attorney for Washington, DC, naming specific inconsistencies in her public statements while under oath before Congress.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, asked US Attorney Channing Phillips to investigate Clinton in July after the FBI announced it wouldn't recommend charges against Clinton over her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.

At issue was FBI Director James Comey saying the agency's investigation found that Clinton sent and received classified information on her private email system, despite her earlier statements to the contrary.

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They pointed to her testimony under oath before a congressional committee during which she said nothing on her server was marked classified at the time it was sent or received:



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There are a few other statements that they cited but the one they start with is Hillary's statement that "nothing was marked classified at the time I sent or received it". They point to Comey's statement that "a very small number of the emails containing classified information bore the markings (my emphasis) indicating the presence of classified information.".

Of course, we now know that Comey was referring to letters "c" in two or three emails. This is NOT the same as "Marked Classified" as Rep Cartwright got Comey to admit in the House committee questioning of Comey's investigation into Clinton's handling of emails. Cartwright forced Comey to admit that NOT one of the emails he said contained classified information had the required Classified Header on it.

The issue of the emails not having Classified Info Headers on them is something I thought should be publicized and have brought up several times(and here) (to the dismay of some): e.g. that Clinton did not mention
Comey's admission about the lack of Classified Headers on her emails in her Fox interview ... and that none of the GOP toadies of M$M will bring up the lack of Classified Headers in any of their treatments of Clinton's emails.

Hopefully, this perjury "case" will not get very far with the U.S. Attorney for D.C., but it is a way to keep the talk going of Hillary's emails and questions (illigitimate though they are) about her truthfulness. The GOP is hoping that keeping questions about emails and whether she spoke truthfully about them or not - will keep the uninformed (i.e. people who get all their 'news' from M$M) thinking there must be a valid reason for continuing to ask these questions. Continuing to ask these questions implies that Clinton was not truthful, or at least sneaky about her emails. This is how disinformation and Big Lies work.




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House Republicans outline their case against H. Clinton 4 perjury in letter to U.S. Attorney 4 D.C. (Original Post) Bill USA Aug 2016 OP
As usual, they have nothing, except their scum sucking selves. apcalc Aug 2016 #1
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