After the Director of the FBI fully exonerated Hillary Clinton and made clear that she broke no laws and told no lies, House Republicans took the extraordinary step of demanding copies if the FBI’s notes from its interview with Clinton. That request was granted, and almost immediately, information from those notes began leaking to the media. The trouble: every word of those notes is, by definition, classified information.
Jennifer Palmieri, the Communications Director for the Hillary Clinton campaign, tweeted this evening that she “Would remind all that this material is classified. So this is leaking of classified material.” Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta added that he’s “Already hearing from people who have been contacted by reporters with knowledge of the content of their interviews in FBI 302’s.”
Palmieri went on to point out that not only are House Republicans leaking classified information, they’re likely releasing bits and pieces of it out of context in the hope of painting a different picture of Hillary Clinton’s testimony than what actually transpired. So not only is Paul Ryan’s crew committing imprisonable felonies as we speak, they may be doing it in an intentionally dishonest manner on top of it.