Obama Admin Keeps Covering for Clinton

The Obama Administration is frantically scrambling to determine how it should best respond to House Republicans’ demands last month for the FBI to turn over records detailing its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server scandal.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee requested that FBI Director James Comey release the entire “investigative file” on the agency’s year-long probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State. The committee members also expressed keen interest in obtaining the FBI’s official report on its three-and-a-half hour interview with Clinton just prior to Comey’s announcement that she would face no charges.

“The State Department has asked the FBI that we be kept apprised of information to be provided to Congress that contains sensitive information related to State Department equities and for an opportunity to review it,” Trudeau said.

“This should include, but is not limited to, all witness interview transcripts, notes, 302 reports, documents collected, and memoranda or analysis created during the course of the investigation,” the committee’s letter to Comey clarified.

And, of course, the Obama Administration would not be pleased with those requests.

“The State Department has cooperated — and will continue to cooperate — with the FBI every step of the way. We support and understand the FBI’s desire to provide information to Congress. Any suggestion to the contrary is false,” State Department Director of Press Relations Elizabeth Trudeau said in a statement.

But there’s a catch: the Obama Administration requests that it be “kept apprised” of what information is given to Congress concerning the matter.

“The State Department has asked the FBI that we be kept apprised of information to be provided to Congress that contains sensitive information related to State Department equities and for an opportunity to review it. Such an opportunity for review is in keeping with the standard interagency review process when dealing with another agency’s documents or equities,” Trudeau said.

Comey responded relatively favorable to the committee’s request, telling the Congress members on July 7, “I’ll commit to giving you everything I can possibly give you under the law and to doing it as quickly as possible,” according to Politico.

But Comey’s willingness to work with the committee issued some red flags for State Department officials, several of whom were interviewed as part of the probe.

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Clinton’s ongoing email scandal has refused to die down after Comey announced that no charges against her would be recommended, and Republican rival Donald Trump’s campaign is continuing to hound “crooked” Clinton for her “corruption.”

“Hillary Clinton’s week of scandals, from corruption to allegations of pay-to-play to flip-flops, reminded everyone just how flawed she is as a candidate and why the American people cannot afford four more years of Clinton rule,” Jason Miller, senior communications adviser for the Trump campaign, said in a Saturday statement.

“Whether it’s using government entities to personally and politically enrich herself, prioritizing donors over what’s best for the American people, using her influence to shutter suspicious financial transactions with the Clinton Foundation and foreign entities, or the ability of Clinton to completely surrender and sell out American workers after promising a stop to the TPP, it’s clear that Crooked Hillary will do and say anything to get elected,” Miller continued. “70% of American voters believe our country is going in the wrong direction, and only Donald Trump provides the vision and the energy to get us back on track.”