In a letter from
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz
(R-UT) and House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) to U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia Channing Phillips, the two top House
Republicans made their case that Clinton committed perjury.
Chaffetz and
Goodlatte wrote to Phillips:
On August 2,
2016, Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik confirmed that you received the
Committees’ request for an investigation regarding certain statements made by
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her testimony before Congress
and will ‘take appropriate action as necessary. To assist the investigation,
this letter identifies several pieces of Secretary Clinton’s testimony that
appear to implicate 18 U.S.C. §§1621 and 1001 the criminal statutes that
prohibit perjury and false statements, respectively. The evidence collected by
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during its investigation of Secretary
Clinton’s use of a personal email system during her time as Secretary of State
appears to directly contradict several aspects of her sworn testimony, which
are described in greater detail below.
Before
detailing at least four specific instances in which Clinton allegedly committed
perjury, the House Republicans explained the matter a bit further:
During a House
Select Committee on Benghazi hearing on October 22, 2015, Secretary Clinton
testified with respect to (1) whether she sent or received emails that were
marked classified at the time; (2) whether her attorneys reviewed each of the
emails on her personal email system; (3) whether there was one, or more servers
that stored work-related emails during her time as Secretary of State; and (4)
whether she provided all her work-related emails to the Department of State.
Although there may be other aspects of Secretary Clinton’s sworn testimony that
are at odds with the FBI’s findings, her testimony in those four areas bears
specific scrutiny in light of the facts and evidence FBI Director James Comey
described in his public statement on July 5, 2016 and in testimony before the
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on July 7, 2016.
via Breitbart
The key portions
that show Hillary Clinton perjured herself was when she explained in sworn
testimony that she never sent or received emails on her illicit email server.
With what the FBI described as “extreme carelessness.” America’s national
security was put at risk.
Apparently, the
process of starting the investigation would be straightforward, according to Fox News:
A retired
assistant FBI director, and 28-year-veteran of the bureau, said a perjury
review is generally straightforward for agents.
“They look at
the transcript of the testimony they provided in light of what they know to be,
suspect to be the truth. They investigate both sides and take the aggregate and
turn it over to the prosecuting authority for a decision,” Steven Pomerantz
said.
“Since the
Director (Comey) already established what she (Clinton) said and the
investigation is complete, it would be a relatively simple matter to make a
decision about perjury… given the history of this, it’s hard to say – it would
seem to me a matter of weeks not months in this case.” Read More
