Two GOP Lawmakers Make Their Case For Hillary Clinton Perjury Charges

Two Republican lawmakers on Monday laid out their case for why they say Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton should be charged with perjury over her handling of classified information on a private email server while she was secretary of state.

In a letter to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the two GOP congressmen pointed to four statements that Clinton made under oath during a House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing that they say contradict what FBI director James Comey found after a year-plus-long investigation into Clinton's private email server.

Comey in July declined to recommend criminal charges against Clinton after a probe conducted by career prosecutors and investigators.

Here are the four contradictions that U.S. Reps. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, and Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia, allege:

1. Clinton testified that she never knowingly sent or received classified information, while Comey said, "There was classified material emailed."
2. Clinton said her attorneys went through "every single email" to find work-related correspondence, but her attorneys used search terms to sort through the more than 60,000 emails on the server. The FBI, Comey said, read every single message.
3. Clinton testified that the FBI has "the server that was used" while she was secretary of state, while Comey said she "used several different servers and administrators" while she worked at the State Department.
4. Clinton said she provided the FBI with "all of my work-related emails." Comey said that the FBI found "several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014."

Comey later clarified that three emails on the server marked classified were done so incorrectly, with a "C" marking in the body of the email but not the “overall classification” marking required. State Department spokesman John Kirby added that two of those three emails were mistakenly marked as confidential.

You can read the congressmen's full letter here.

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