Sen. Grassley Irate Over Reports of Clinton State Dept. FOIA Interference

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, is demanding answers from the State Department regarding Hillary Clinton's ongoing email scandal and whether or not her staff inappropriately got involved in FOIA requests.

In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Grassley asked a series of questions and pointed out inconsistencies between media reports and claims from the Clinton camp surrounding her use of private email addresses and a private server during her time as Secretary of State (2009-2013).

Grassley also attempted to find out more information about FOIA requests, and whether media reports about members of Clinton's staff using their position to interfere with them are true.

"In addition to Secretary Clinton's actions, news reports indicate that her staff, including her Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, took a special interest in reviewing and approving State Department responses to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on behalf of Secretary Clinton," Grassley wrote in the May 22 letter, which was obtained by Politico.

"According to the Wall Street Journal, Ms. Mills exercised substantial control of document production, going so far as to 'flag as problematic a few [documents] that the department's records-law specialists felt obligated to release[.]' In one instance, a State Department employee wrote an email in reference to a pending document release and noted, 'I believe, though, that this is still pending with Cheryl Mills' office...The real action, for now, is with Cheryl's office.

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