Earlier this week, John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. Senate, called for a special prosecutor to take up an investigation of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of State. From Roll Call:
"Secretary Clinton denied publicly that she transmitted classified information and violated government policy, both of which proved untrue. Secretary Clinton's lawyers made their own determinations as to which of the emails on her server were government records and deleted the remainder — tens of thousands of documents," Cornyn wrote Tuesday. "And the former campaign staffer who set up the server, who would subsequently be employed both by the State Department and Secretary Clinton privately, has invoked the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to avoid providing information to government investigators."
Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee has come to Clinton's defense – opposing the move.
In the House, that same duty has fallen U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Decatur. From his office:
"Secretary Clinton's use of a private e-mail server while Secretary of State was legal, and there is no evidence of any misconduct," said Johnson, a member of the House Judiciary Committee and ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law (RRCAL). "The obvious motive behind the request for the appointment of a special prosecutor is to attack and undermine Secretary Clinton's campaign for president. A Ken Starr-style investigation is a waste of taxpayer money, as is the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which has already wasted $3.5 million – exceeding the entire budget of the House Intelligence Committee – in an unsuccessful attempt to find misconduct."
You'll recall that earlier this week, we explained why Georgia Democrats aren't in a mood to abandon Hillary Clinton. This is one result.
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