Chaffetz Says Congress Not Finished Investigating Clinton's Email Use

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

FBI Director James Comey's Sunday letter announcing that a new review of emails did not change the FBI's conclusion about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server will not stop Congress from continuing to investigate the former secretary of state, according to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT).

"We’re going to keep after this until we get to the truth. We don’t have it yet," Chaffetz, chair of the House Oversight Committee, said on Fox News Sunday night.

The congressman told Fox News that he was not surprised by Comey's Sunday announcement but that the letter left unanswered questions about the investigation into Clinton's email use.

"I don’t know that it’s surprising that they came to the same conclusion that Hillary Clinton was so careless with classified information, this mess that she created," he said. "I was actually more surprised ten days ago to announce that they were looking at new information. But I still have a lot of questions: Is that new information? Is that classified? What other people are implicated? How many other instances were there? We don’t know the answer to any of those questions," Chaffetz continued.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chaffetz-still-questions-clinton-fbi-emails

[onehandle]

1. Bicycle seat sniffer says something. nt

[SoCalNative]

2. Chaffetz needs to be sent packing

worthless POS

[3catwoman3]

3. At the risk of endlessly repeating...

...myself - FUCK YOU, Jason!

[PunksMom]

24. Yes...what she said!

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Chaffetz: Utah's version of Trey (Onionhead) Gowdy.

Both losers.

[tanyev]

7. They just cain't quit her.

[Uben]

8. When you haven't got squat......

...that's all they can do. They have a terribly shitty candidate who has alienated almost every ethnic group through his endless ramblings, they have less money, less support, less intelligent people on staff, and no message other than "Hillary is a crook". And they can't even come up with anything to make that stick. End result.......LOSERS!

[riversedge]

17. No,they can't let her go--and because Congress makes its own rules about

everything they do--it is unlikely that the recent Dem complaint about Jason using a yahoo account will go anywhere.




https://thinkprogress.org/why-can-rep-jason-chaffetz-use-personal-email-but-hillary-clinton-cant-c2734e2c839d#.oexzl3cxp



Emily Atkin
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Jul 7

Why Can Rep. Jason Chaffetz Use Personal Email, But Hillary Clinton Can’t?
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), left, and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. CREDIT: AP PHOTOS




............................ Why are members of agencies such as the State Department required to use government email accounts, while members of Congress are not?

The answer lies in federal open records laws — most of which don’t apply to Congress.

The Associated Press (AP) reported on this extensively last year, finding that members of Congress aren’t required to “use official email accounts, or to retain, archive or store their emails, while in office or after.” The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) — the law that allows the public to request internal documents from government agencies — for example, does not cover members of Congress. Congress is also not subject to the Federal Records Act, which requires all federal agency employees to keep accurate records of their activities.

Federal agency employees, of course, include Clinton, who was found to have violated the Federal Records Act by using a private email server while serving as secretary of state.

The reason Congress is not subject to these rules, however, is because Congress makes its own rules. And Congress has never decided that it needs a law requiring its members to maintain records and make those records available to the public...............

[still_one]

9. We just need to capture the WH and the Senate, and we can tell this sniveling pipsqueak to get lost

[catrose]

21. His opponent is Stephen Tryon

You can donate to him through ActBlue.

[still_one]

32. Does Stephen Tryon have a chance? I have been donating to Deborah Ross and Katie McGinty

for the Senate races which is where my focus has been, and call banking into swing states.

[catrose]

40. The Salt Lake Trib

called it a David vs. Goliath race. I can't pull up the link--bad Internet this morning--so I'm hoping it works out as well as it did for David. I've given to him, as well as the ones you mention.

Article

[Fahrenthold451]

10. Guess what chaffetz, were not done with you

[Feeling the Bern]

11. We’re going to keep after this until we get to the truth. . .that we believe is the truth in our own

pre-conceived minds, even if all the facts say otherwise."

[muntrv]

13. Investigate the investigators.

[sarae]

14. Chaffetz Says He Still Has Room

To Insert More Of His Head Up His Ass

[Turbineguy]

15. Unless of course

they can cook up another fake scandal.

[chelsea0011]

18. Bulletin...Bulletin....Republicans will never stop investigating HRC about everything.

[Amonester]

28. And Democrats will never stop NOT investigating Republicans about anything.

Including war crimes (lying about the rationale to invade a foreign country, murder hundreds of thousands of innocents, torture many of them, and wasting the lives of thousands of US military) for oil.

[Botany]

19. Oh for the love of dog.

Bottom line there was and is nothing about HRC's emails to make "them" have so much hype.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016169542

The HRC email scandal = John Kerry Swiftboating

[LisaL]

22. Does the bear shit in the woods?

[SwankyXomb]

42. Does Jason Chaffetz eat bear shit?

I think we need long, drawn-out, costly hearings on this topic.

[PunksMom]

25. And this is why nothing EVER gets done in congress.

Because of obstructionist like this piece of shit. I'm so over this crap...UGH.

[tonyt53]

26. Well then, he won't be surprised when the Dem majority of the Senate goes after Bush/Cheney.

[patsimp]

27. republicans want no work done for the people - they are like little evil children making stuff up

vote THEM ALL OUT of office.

[DK504]

29. Listening Stephanie Miller

Comey/Comey just noted the emails held absolutely(!) no information on the laptop.

Wow. Please please some one put out as press release or have a yuggge preess conference slapping the leaker down.

[Thinkingabout]

30. An example of useless wasted space in our Congress, he loves wasting money, the same person

who said they could not look their daughter in the face after the tapes revealed the sexual assault admission by Donald Trump turns around and endorses Trump.

[rurallib]

31. Quit wasting my money, you dumb fuck schmuck!

Chaffetz, if you want to spend your money or one of your rich buddies money on your game, go ahead. But, goddammit quit spending my money!

I can't tell you how hard I worked and what kind of shit I went through to make the money that you are pissing away on your big orgasmic fantasy.

Quit it you asshole!

[sarae]

35. +1000

FU CHAFFETZ!!!!

[bushisanidiot]

37. And this is how the republicans will lose the gavel in 2018!!

4 years of an investigation into benghazi has made the american public sick and tired of partisan politics.
republicans will be thrown OUT unless they can show that they can actually work with democrats.

[bucolic_frolic]

38. Let the investigation

of Comey and Chaffetz begin and follow it wherever it leads

Political collusion with investigative personnel by a sitting member
of the House will make for good theater

[dicksmc3]

39. Look into the mirror asshole!!

If anyone needs to be investigated it should be Guilliani, Gowdy, Jordan and CHAFFETZ!!! Those 4 have done the country a DISSERVICE with wasting our taxpayer money on BULLSHIT investigations that are totally uncalled for!! Guilliani needs to be hung from a tree and drawn and quartered!! Then let's go after Faux so-called news.. Maybe Brett Baier for using his program to promote more BULLSHIT about those FBI e-mails..

[BillyBobBrilliant]

43. This P.O.S.

Needs to get a real job, and stop mooching off of the taxpayers, whilst our future marches on.

[FairWinds]

45. It is long past time since the Democrats should have . .

stopped cooperating with these partisan witch hunts.

[LiberalLovinLug]

46. Here we go again

Instead of more (or including?) Benghazi public hearings, now it will be endless Email-gate investigations.

If nothing else to cloud her reputation and Democrats reputation in general in order to win at the very least control of both houses for the mid-terms and make sure she doesn't win a second term.

Somehow Democrats, because the media seems incapable of it, have to enlighten the public as to how much time and their own money they have spent on Benghazi already. Uselessly spent. And then project just how much of their money and the time of their Republican representative will be spending on this email shite in coming years.

http://benghazicommittee.com/benghazi-by-the-numbers/

[displacedtexan]

47. It' time for senate Dems to haul Condi & Colin to the Hill, damn it!

I'm sure Repukes would enjoy some sworn testimony about private servers from the Republicans who started it.

[JCMach1]

50. Wasn't the Weiner Sandwich enough?

Want some more Comey sauce with that? Thank you! Come again

[bmpbmp]

51. The truth is in his mirror.

He needs to examine himself more than anything.