FBI will release more Clinton investigation docs
14 Sep 2017 4:54 PM GMT
Washington: Weeks after saying there wasn't enough public interest in Hillary Clinton's email case, the FBI's decision has been modified, and the bureau will publicly release more details of its obstruction of justice probe into the former secretary of state. The Justice Department confirmed the new position in a letter Thursday to Ty Clevenger, a lawyer who'd filed an open-records request for the information.
The FBI had initially told him there wasn't enough public interest to outweigh Mrs. Clinton's privacy concerns, but he appealed to the Justice Department, which said it was "modifying the FBI's response." Justice Department official Sean R O'Neill said after speaking with Clevenger, they have concluded that the records in question are part of Clinton email investigation file, which he said they're already making public in installments.
"Any records concerning the FBI's investigation of obstruction of justice are currently being processed by the FBI along with the remainder of the Clinton email investigation file. The FBI is publicly posting all releasable records on a rolling basis," he said.
The records are being posted at the FBI's "vault," a section of the bureau's website, under the heading "Hillary Clinton." "The FBI will continue to process and post subsequent releases of responsive records until processing of the entire investigative file is complete," O'Neill said.
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