Clinton camp lashes out over another GOP email hearing

Hillary Clinton’s campaign blasted House Republicans on Wednesday for planning another hearing relating to the Democratic presidential candidate’s use of a private email server while secretary of State.

Clinton’s campaign said Republicans are launching “another taxpayer-funded sham of an inquiry to try to hurt Hillary Clinton politically.”

{mosads}”For weeks Republicans have said they trusted FBI Director Comey to lead an independent review into Secretary Clinton’s emails, but now they are second-guessing his judgement because his findings do not align with their conspiracy theories,” Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said in a statement.

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has called Comey to testify before his panel on Thursday, saying, “Individuals who intentionally skirt the law must be held accountable.”

The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee also said that Attorney General Loretta Lynch had agreed to testify about the Clinton probe before the committee next Tuesday.

Comey announced on Tuesday that while Clinton and her aides were “extremely careless” in handling classified data, the FBI would not recommend charges against her over her.

Republicans expressed shock at the decision, with Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) later the same day announcing that Republicans would hold hearings over the FBI’s decision not to pursue criminal charges.

Clinton’s campaign on Wednesday released a video of Chaffetz from just last month, in which he says Republicans would “probably” accept a decision by Comey, even one recommending no charges against Clinton.

Chaffetz said at the time that Comey “is going to be the definitive person to make a determination or recommendation.” 

Republicans have said they want more answers as to why Comey would recommend no charges against Clinton despite offering a remarks contradicting many past statements from Clinton about her emails.

Clinton’s campaign was quick to point out that news of the hearings came a week after the two-year House Benghazi committee’s investigation ended.

That committee produced new details surrounding the deadly 2012 attacks that left four Americans dead, though did not explicitly find new evidence of culpability on the part of Clinton.