GOP senator calls on FBI to loosen hold on Clinton documents
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked the FBI on Wednesday to correct what he called its “mistake” of restricting access to unclassified files from its closed investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, urged FBI Director James Comey to send his committee any unclassified records involving the investigation into the Democratic presidential nominee. Grassley set a deadline of Friday.
Responding to requests from GOP House members, the FBI on Aug. 16 delivered two large binders containing both classified and unclassified documents to a secure room on Capitol Hill typically reserved for the nation’s most closely guarded secrets. Documents containing classified information are included with those marked by the FBI as “Unclassified/For Official Use.”
Grassley said that by comingling the documents and locking them away the FBI violated an executive order dictating the proper handling classified materials.