
The FBI rushed in the months ahead of the 2016 presidential election to accommodate Hillary Clinton’s request for expedited processing of information from its investigation into her secret emails, according to documents released Monday.
Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest legal group, obtained hundreds of pages of documents after suing the FBI for ignoring a public records request.
Among the documents are emails from then-FBI General Counsel James Baker recounting his conversation with Clinton attorney Doug Kendall in the weeks after then-FBI Director James B. Comey cleared the Democratic presidential candidate of criminal wrongdoing.
Mr. Kendall was seeking investigative documents, and Mr. Baker said he told Mr. Kendall that the FBI would process them quickly, once the bureau received an official request.
“They will send it in the morning. I said that we would process it expeditiously. David asked us to focus first on the secretary’s 302,” Mr. Baker wrote, referring to the FBI’s name for notes of interviews agents perform during investigations.
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