Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, demanded the Justice Department provide an estimate of how much the Hillary Clinton email probe cost taxpayers in a scathing letter to FBI Director James Comey made public Wednesday.
The Wisconsin Republican also pressed Comey to disclose the number of agents who worked on the case and a full accounting of the resources the investigation consumed over nearly a year.
Johnson became the fourth congressional committee chair to push the Justice Department for more details about the investigation that yielded no criminal charges for Clinton and her aides despite uncovering their “extremely careless” treatment of classified intelligence.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, his House counterpart, both asked the FBI to provide a deeper explanation of its decision to conclude its probe without recommending an indictment.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, called Comey to testify before his committee Wednesday about how he concluded from the available evidence that no laws were broken by the former secretary of state.
