Dayton Reporter

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford (AR-01) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have sent a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel, urging the bureau to review materials related to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. The materials in question, which concern the handling of classified information during Clinton's time as Secretary of State, have been held by the FBI since 2018 at an office in Northern Virginia.

The letter follows efforts by Chairman Grassley to declassify the appendix—referred to as the “Clinton annex”—to the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General’s June 2018 report that examined how the DOJ and FBI handled the Clinton investigation.

Chairmen Crawford and Grassley stated, “The revelations contained in the declassified OIG appendix are at the heart of why the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) became distrusted by so many under your agency’s prior directors: a failure to impartially conduct its law enforcement and intelligence mission. Concerning the issue at hand, Comey’s FBI shockingly failed to review and exploit evidence in its own possession, even though they admitted in written memos the information was necessary to conduct a ‘thorough and complete investigation.’ The FBI also failed to review and exploit other foreign intelligence information.”

They added, “Therefore, we now write to stress the importance that this material be immediately dug out from hiding and properly assessed. How evidence which purportedly includes information related to ‘former President Barack Obama’s emails’ and ‘network infrastructure diagrams for U.S. government classified networks,’ remained unreviewed by the preeminent law enforcement agency in the world is mind-numbing. We know you will not similarly ignore evidence in your agency’s possession, no matter where its exploitation or conclusions might lead.”

According to details revealed after declassification, Russian-language reports obtained by the FBI described discussions between then-DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations about deleting evidence from Hillary Clinton’s email servers. These reports also referenced an investigation into the Clinton Foundation and suggested then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch had contact with Clinton staff members.

The DOJ Office of Inspector General relied on what has since been called a debunked Intelligence Community Assessment on alleged Russia collusion during its review process.

Mike Turner currently serves as a member of Congress representing Ohio's 10th district. He has held this position since 2003 after succeeding Tony P. Hall (https://turner.house.gov/about). Turner was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1960, graduated from Ohio Northern University with a BA in 1982, earned his JD from Case Western Reserve University in 1985, and later received another degree from University of Dayton in 1992 (https://turner.house.gov/about).

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