Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on Thursday vowed to keep up pressure on the State Department and Hillary Clinton to clear up their story about Clinton’s private email server after this week’s inspector general report showed Congress has not been told the truth.
“The Inspector General report makes clear that Secretary Clinton and a number of other former department officials have not been truthful with the American people,” he said on the Senate floor.
Grassley said for example that the IG report showed that some State Department employees knew that Clinton had her own email server, even though lawyers for those employees told Congress differently.
“I will follow up to get to the bottom of these discrepancies, because misrepresenting the facts to Congress is unacceptable,” Grassley said. “Simply said, the American people deserve better.”
Grassley also noted that the IG report also revealed Congress’s worst fear: that Clinton’s private server was hacked. He noted language on page 40 of the IG report that said an aide to Clinton had to shut down the server because he thought “someone was trying to hack us.”
In another instance, the staffer shut down the server for “a few min” because of an attack:
