Two congressmen-Republican Monday, July 11, sent a formal request to conduct an investigation on the subject of did former Secretary of state and now the main contender for the presidency from the Democrats, Hillary Clinton commit perjury when he gave testimony before a congressional Committee about the use of personal email servers. About it writes The Washington Post.
The message is addressed to the Federal district attorney Channing Phillips, with a copy sent to US attorney General Loretta Lynch and FBI Director James Komi.
The letter’s authors, Jason Chaffetz from Utah and Bob Goodlet from Virginia, say that collected by the FBI during the investigation, the facts directly contradict some of the testimony that Clinton gave under oath.
In this regard, Republicans propose Federal authorities to investigate and determine whether to prosecute Clinton for violating regulations prohibiting perjury in Congress.
Earlier, the state Department resumed the proceedings over the use of Clinton’s personal server to conduct official correspondence via e-mail during the period of its leadership office.
Internal proceedings of the foreign office had been suspended in April in connection with the beginning of the same from the FBI. 7 July it became known that Lynch refused to bring charges against Clinton.
5 Jul Komi said that the evidence of intentional abandonment of information without adequate protection, and the betrayal of the country not found. He noted that his Department recommends not to initiate criminal proceedings, although the final decision rests with the Ministry of justice.
The scandal with e-mail, Clinton erupted in March 2015. During his tenure as Secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 Clinton violated established procedure, prescribing to correspond through a special government email system with additional protection. Instead, the politician used a private e-mail account were on belonged to her server.
