FOX NEWS: Ratcliffe's Questioning of FBI Director Comey
Smirks and eye rolls coming from Capitol Hill tonight after the head of the FBI says no
one in the Clinton email investigation received special treatment.
Chief Intelligence Correspondent Katherine Harrich reports tonight, for many GOP lawmakers,
the more they learn about the investigation, the more they doubt its veracity.
3,000 pages of emails deleted by Hillary Clinton's team and recovered by the FBI will be processed
before Election Day, but the State Department spokesman seemed noncommittal about posting
them online.
We take the court order seriously.
Traditionally, we do make public our responses to FOIA requesters.
The congressional testimony Wednesday showed the email investigation deviated from standard
practice.
No grand jury was impaneled, a routine step that gives the government subpoena power to
seize evidence, in this case, Clinton attorney Sheryl Mills' laptop.
Why did you not decide to go to an investigative grand jury?
You can often do things faster with informal agreements, especially when you're interacting
with lawyers.
The Wall Street Journal's editorial page took aim at the FBI director, quote, his highly
unusual methods in investigating Mrs. Clinton have tarnished the FBI and certainly knocked
off his halo.
Mills and a second lawyer, Heather Samuelson, got limited immunity deals from the Justice
Department and still sat in on Hillary Clinton's July 2 interview at FBI headquarters.
As one Republican pointedly noted, I don't think that there's any reasonable prosecutor
out there who would have allowed two immunized witnesses central to the prosecution approving
the case against her to sit in the room.
The attorney general whose department granted the five immunity deals assured Brett Baier
in February that she would be guided by professionals and not politics.
They will review the facts and the evidence and make a determination in due course.
But Lynch's so-called chance meeting with Bill Clinton on a Phoenix tarmac one week before
Hillary Clinton's FBI interview cast doubt on her independence.
A special operations veteran says his community that lives and dies when classified information
is compromised has lost faith in both departments' leadership.
Special operations, operational security is paramount.
And one of the things they see is a lack of integrity and a lack of discipline on the
part of those who have looked into the incident.
In another departure, the office of the director of national intelligence said no formal damage
assessments will be done even though 2,100 Clinton emails contain classified information
with another 22 at the top secret level.
These assessments are required under an intelligence directive known as 732, Brett.
Thank you, Catherine.
You're welcome.

