Sen. Dianne Feinstein dismissed Republican calls for the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton’s private emails.
“Instead of wasting more taxpayer dollars, the process in place to review and release Secretary Clinton’s emails, which she has welcomed, should be allowed to continue,” the California Democrat said Wednesday. “Calls for a special counsel are purely political and completely unnecessary.”
Feinstein noted the State Department and the intelligence community are already in the process of reviewing Clinton’s emails for potentially classified information.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, pressed Attorney General Loretta Lynch to appoint a special counsel Tuesday in the Clinton email case.
Cornyn cited the need for an independent party to investigate the former secretary of state’s unusual email arrangement.
The FBI is presently investigating Clinton’s handling of sensitive material. Her email network is the subject of three separate congressional probes as well.
Bryan Pagliano, Clinton’s former IT manager, invoked his Fifth Amendment rights in response to requests from investigators to discuss his knowledge of the server arrangement, which he reportedly set up in the basement of Clinton’s Chappaqua home.
