FBI officials are refusing to cooperate with a federal court despite a judge’s order that the law enforcement agency hand over information about Hillary Clinton’s private server.
In a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative nonprofit, the FBI said it could not confirm or deny an investigation into Clinton’s email network. Judge Emmet Sullivan of U.S. District Court had asked the State Department to work with the FBI to obtain additional information about Clinton’s emails.
But Clinton’s legal team confirmed it had given investigators several thumb drives that contained copies of the emails and a server Clinton had used to house the “clintonemail.com” network.
The State Department asked the FBI last week in a separate request for electronic copies of the 55,000 printed pages of emails Clinton turned over at the end of 2014.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the FBI is “behaving like it’s above the law” by stonewalling the court in the Judicial Watch case, according to a report by Politico.
The watchdog group is seeking records of the unusual employment arrangement that allowed Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide, to work for the State Department, the Clinton Foundation and a consulting firm called Teneo Strategies at the same time.
