Referral for Clinton perjury probe could come next week

[moonshaz]

The House Oversight Committee is expected to send a formal request asking the FBI to open a criminal investigation into allegations that Hillary Clinton lied to Congress as soon as next week, a committee aide told The Hill.

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[jeeelim5]

Isn't Gowdy the one who was set to be Speaker but then he admitted on TV the Benghazi hearings were only being held to hurt Hillary's numbers in the polls so he got dropped like a hot potato? Lmao he would be doing this, of course.

[ms_mmelissa]

lol Gowdy is obsessed with trying to take her down. Like good luck with that, apparently congress has now spent more time and money trying (and failing) to dig up stuff on Hillary than on their committee into what happened on 9/11.

[moonshaz]

Him and Chaffetz, too. They're like the Double Trouble Twins. They both LIVE to take Hillary down. Their tiny lives seem to have no other purpose.

[ms_mmelissa]

She honestly comes off better every time they try to attack her though.

I feel like every time they try to haul Hillary in for questioning she should just start playing this:

[invisiblegirlx]

Well...she kinda did lie? I doubt this will go anywhere though.

[hudebnik]

As the article points out, a perjury charge requires not only saying something that isn't true under oath, but saying so "willfully and knowingly". I don't think "willfully" is a heavy lift in this case -- she said pretty clearly and forcefully, as a complete sentence, that none of the emails were marked classified -- but "knowingly" is harder, because one would have to show that she knew, at the time of the testimony, that some of them WERE marked classified

[ms_mmelissa]

She did lie but I think the Comey hearing actually made a really great case for why she didn't knowingly lie i.e. it was a few emails out of tens of thousands and they were improperly marked so it's very possible she either forgot or never knew in the first place.

[moonshaz]

Exactly. In this article it just says they were marked with a C. I don't know where that C was, but it seems to me that it would awfully easy to miss a single character like that--or write it off as a random typo, which is what I'd probably do myself.

It sounds like me like the State Dept. may really need to take a close look at how they mark things that are supposed to be classified information, because that doesn't seem at all adequate to me.