GOP senators probe Clinton Foundation ties to State, Boko Haram

By Sarah Bedford

Published September 27, 2016 9:15pm ET

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GOP senators probe Clinton Foundation ties to State, Boko Haram — Critics have questioned the motives behind State Department officials' reluctance to put Nigerian terror outfit Boko Haram on the list of official terror organizations under Clinton. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Sens. David Vitter and Chuck Grassley pressed the Justice Department Tuesday on why the State Department, under the leadership of Hillary Clinton, refused to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization.

“For two years, Boko Haram grew as Secretary Clinton and her Department of State refused official requests to designate Boko Haram” as a terror group, the Republican lawmakers wrote in a letter to the Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Tuesday.

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