{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://steveking.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/king-confronts-fbi-director-over-curiosities-of-clinton-e-mail", "King Confronts FBI Director Over Curiosities of Clinton E-mail Investigation", "2017-12-07", "2017", "2017-12", "Republican", "House", "IA", "Steve King", "K000362", "steveking.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "King: \u201cIt looks to me that the \u2018Get Out of Jail Free\u2019 card that Hillary Clinton received is rooted clear back in Barack Obama and his introduction of the word intent or lack of intent as a requirement for 18 USC 793 (f).\u201d\nCongressman Steve King released the following video of his questioning of Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray during a Judiciary Committee oversight hearing held this morning. King used his time to question Director Wray over \u201ccuriosities\u201d related to the manner in which the FBI, under the Obama-era leadership of admitted political leaker James Comey, handled the criminal case involving the mishandling of classified information by former Secretary of State and Democratic nominee for President, Hillary Clinton.\nAmong the \u201ccuriosities\u201d cited by King are: the apparent failures of the FBI to take or preserve notes and/or transcripts, or to record audio or video during their questioning of Mrs. Clinton; the use of an \u201cintent\u201d standard that does not exist in the statute to justify Comey\u2019s decision to let Mrs. Clinton escape prosecution; and Comey\u2019s strange determination that \u201cextreme carelessness\u201d, a standard for which he admits he has evidence of Mrs. Clinton\u2019s guilt, is somehow different than the synonymous \u201cgross negligence\u201d standard that appears in the statute.\nInterestingly, in his responses to King, Director Wray admitted that it does not appear standard protocol was followed in the Clinton investigation, and that the statutory \u201cgross negligence\u201d standard is, as King contends, synonymous with a standard of \u201cextreme carelessness.\u201d As such, Mrs. Clinton met the standard for prosecution.\nFull Video is available at this link.\nBackground:\n18 USC 793 is the federal statute that governs the mishandling of classified information, and it is the applicable statute governing Hillary Clinton\u2019s mishandling of classified emails on her private server. Before granting Clinton a \u201cget of jail free card,\u201d former FBI Director James Comey stated:\n\u201cAlthough there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent.\u201d\nAs written, 18 USC 793 does not contain a specific \u201cintent\u201d requirement. The applicable standard provided for in statute is that the accused acted with \u201cgross negligence,\u201d a standard Hillary Clinton certainly met based on the existing public evidence, and a standard that appears to be synonymous with the \u201cextreme carelessness\u201d standard Comey has admitted he found prior to absolving Mrs. Clinton.\nClaims of an \u201cintent requirement\u201d allowing the previous administration to avoid prosecuting Hillary Clinton criminally appear to be a political invention of former President Obama. After President Obama defended Clinton publically in October of 2015 and April of 2016 by specifically citing Clinton\u2019s supposed \u201cintent,\u201d it appears the Obama-era FBI applied the non-existent standard promoted by the President to their consideration of the Clinton case.\n18 USC 793 (f) reads as follows:\n\u201c18 USC 793 (f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer\u2014Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.\u201d\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://steveking.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/king-confronts-fbi-director-over-curiosities-of-clinton-e-mail"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4683110639452934, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}