Elijah Cummings shoots down NYT report of Hillary "criminal" email probe:
"Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) is rebutting reports that the State Department has formally requested a federal criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of State.
'I spoke personally to the State Department inspector general on Thursday, and he said he never asked the Justice Department to launch a criminal investigation of Secretary Clinton's email usage,' Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said Friday in a statement.
Instead, State Inspector General Steve A. Linick, 'told me the Intelligence Community IG notified the Justice Department and Congress that they identified classified information in a few emails that were part of the (Freedom of Information Act) review, and that none of those emails had been previously marked as classified.'...
'This is the latest example in a series of inaccurate leaks to generate false front-page headlines ? only to be corrected later ? and they have absolutely nothing to do with the attacks in Benghazi or protecting our diplomatic corps overseas,' said Cummings, who also serves as ranking member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform."
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/249077-top-dem-refutes-reports-of-criminal-probe-of-clintons-emails?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter via The Hill
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