Grassley Seeks Information on former FBI Director’s Use of Non-Governmental Email Accounts

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley today sought information on whether the FBI has requested or obtained any of the official, work-related materials from former FBI Director Comey’s personal devices and accounts cited in the recent Justice Department Inspector General report.

“The Justice Department should apply at least as much scrutiny to its own former Director as it applied to the former Secretary of State,” Grassley wrote in a letter to the FBI. “It is disturbing that FBI employees tasked with investigating Secretary Clinton, including the former Director, appear to have engaged in strikingly similar conduct. Although it does not appear as egregious and prolonged, they also used non-government systems for official work.”

In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Grassley asks for an accounting of steps the FBI has or has not taken to secure access to former Director Comey’s work-related materials, and the reasons for not taking any steps if the bureau chose to do nothing.

In its response to the inspector general’s report, the FBI states that “there is no finding or indication that any classified material ever transited former Director Comey’s, Ms. Page’s, or Mr. Strzok’s personal devices or accounts.” Grassley also sought an explanation for that claim in light of the fact that it appears the FBI did not even seek access to the relevant accounts or devices.

Further, Grassley inquires about any efforts the FBI may have taken to clean up any spills of classified information resulting from former Director Comey’s transmittal of the “Comey Memos,” and how any such effort may comport with the FBI’s response to the inspector general’s report.

Full text of Grassley’s letter to Wray follows.

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/grassley-seeks-information-on-former-fbi-directors-use-of-non-governmental-email-accounts