Baltimore Sun

GOP lawmaker: Probe deleted emails

- By Stephen Braun and Eileen Sullivan

WASHINGTON — The Republican chairman of the House committee investigat­ing Hillary Clinton’s email practices asked a federal prosecutor Tuesday to determine whether she or others working with her played a role in the deletion of thousands of her emails by a Colorado technology firm overseeing her private computer server in 2015.

The written request by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, RUtah, to the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia is based on recent revelation­s from the FBI, which decided not to press for criminal charges after its own yearlong investigat­ion.

Clinton and her longtime aide and lawyer, Cheryl Mills, told FBI investigat­ors during questionin­g that they had no knowledge of the deletions. Those occurred separately from the email deletions overseen by the former secretary of state’s legal team last year before she turned over 33,000 work-related messages to the State Department.

The FBI’s recently released summaries of its investigat­ion did not offer any evidence contradict­ing their statements.

Clinton dismissed Chaffetz’s outline of the email deletions as “his latest conspiracy theories.”

“The FBI resolved all of this,” Clinton said Tuesday en route to Tampa, Fla. “Their report answered all of the questions.”

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