A spokesman for Hillary Clinton said Friday that the Democratic front-runner was not lying when she claimed her legal team had not been contacted by the FBI two days before news broke that they were actually in talks to arrange an interview.
Brian Fallon, Clinton’s campaign spokesman, said Republicans are simply “trying to create a problem here where no inconsistency exists.”
Clinton told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday that the FBI had not contacted her or any of her legal representatives.
But reports made public Thursday indicated several of Clinton’s top aides had already been questioned by investigators. Clinton herself is reportedly preparing to submit for an interview as the bureau investigates the private server she used to house sensitive government information as secretary of state.
“So David Kendall is her top counsel, and he has been in touch with the Justice Department throughout this review. We’ve been very upfront about that,” Fallon said during an appearance Friday on CNN.
“I think the question Andrea was asking was whether David Kendall or Hillary Clinton herself had been contacted about actually scheduling the date of the interview, and she said no because the honest answer is, it hasn’t happened yet,” he added. “But whenever they do, we’ll be happy to accommodate that and make that happen.”
Clinton has long argued she did not violate federal records laws by routing her government communications through a personal server because nothing she sent or received was marked classified.
The FBI is reportedly preparing to advise the Justice Department on how to proceed with the case within the next several weeks.
