FBI hands over Clinton’s email probe documents to US Congress

WASHINGTON: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has handed over to the US Congress classified material from its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private

WASHINGTON: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has handed over to the US Congress classified material from its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was the secretary of state.

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The material includes a summary of an interview with Clinton shortly before the FBI announced that, while she was careless using a private server, she cannot be prosecuted for it.

The documents are covered by confidentiality rules preventing lawmakers from disclosing details publicly, but Capitol Hill watchers did not rule out leaks over the next few days.

As secretary of state from 2009 to 2012, Clinton used a private server, housed at her home in New York, for receiving and sending both official and private emails.

Since it was discovered, Clinton has apologised for it and sought to move on, but Republicans won’t let her, intending to use it to make their case that the Clintons do not play by the rules.

They have continued to press for her prosecution for it, even after FBI director James Comey, a lifelong Republican, declared in July the case was not worth prosecuting.

Clinton and her aides “were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information”, he said, but “we are expressing to Justice (Department) our view that no charges are appropriate in this case.”