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Paul Ryan renews call to suspend classified briefings for Hillary Clinton
House Speaker Paul Ryan, seizing on news that the FBI is looking into newly found Hillary Clinton emails, renewed his call to suspend classified briefings to the Democratic presidential nominee.
The intelligence briefings are customary for nominees of the two major political parties.
"Yet again, Hillary Clinton has nobody but herself to blame," Ryan said in a statement. "She was entrusted with some of our nation's most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information."
The FBI said it was renewing the investigation because it had found additional Clinton emails and wanted to determine whether classified information was handled properly.
Ryan characterized the FBI's announcement as a reopening of the bureau's investigation into her private email server, though the FBI did not use that terminology.
"This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators,” Ryan said.
With less than two weeks until election day, the FBI announcement has roiled the presidential race, although it's unclear whether it will boost support for Donald Trump, the GOP nominee.
With early voting already underway in much of the country, polls have shown Clinton consistently ahead of Trump and suggest he may drag down other Republicans on the ballot.
The FBI announcement is helpful to Ryan, however. His badly strained relationship with Trump has hurt his standing in the GOP. Antipathy toward Clinton is the issue that most unites the party.
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Clearly, Hillary Clinton is too incompetent to be trusted with classified information, because she told the FBI she didn't know "C" stands for "confidential" when it appears in government documents:
Clinton to FBI: Didn't know parenthetical 'C' stood for confidential
A woman that stupid had no business being Secretary of State, and has no business running for President. Ryan is right and they should stop briefing this stupid woman with national security briefings.
House Speaker Paul Ryan, seizing on news that the FBI is looking into newly found Hillary Clinton emails, renewed his call to suspend classified briefings to the Democratic presidential nominee.
The intelligence briefings are customary for nominees of the two major political parties.
"Yet again, Hillary Clinton has nobody but herself to blame," Ryan said in a statement. "She was entrusted with some of our nation's most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information."
The FBI said it was renewing the investigation because it had found additional Clinton emails and wanted to determine whether classified information was handled properly.
Ryan characterized the FBI's announcement as a reopening of the bureau's investigation into her private email server, though the FBI did not use that terminology.
"This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators,” Ryan said.
With less than two weeks until election day, the FBI announcement has roiled the presidential race, although it's unclear whether it will boost support for Donald Trump, the GOP nominee.
With early voting already underway in much of the country, polls have shown Clinton consistently ahead of Trump and suggest he may drag down other Republicans on the ballot.
The FBI announcement is helpful to Ryan, however. His badly strained relationship with Trump has hurt his standing in the GOP. Antipathy toward Clinton is the issue that most unites the party.
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Clearly, Hillary Clinton is too incompetent to be trusted with classified information, because she told the FBI she didn't know "C" stands for "confidential" when it appears in government documents:
Clinton to FBI: Didn't know parenthetical 'C' stood for confidential
A woman that stupid had no business being Secretary of State, and has no business running for President. Ryan is right and they should stop briefing this stupid woman with national security briefings.
