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Clinton’s FBI Investigative Report to Be Sent to Congress

Clinton's email
Hillary Clinton / AP
August 16, 2016

The FBI is expected to send to Congress Tuesday afternoon its investigative report on Hillary Clinton’s private email server that it provided to the Justice Department last month.

The report includes notes from the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while serving as secretary of state, CNN reported. The documents are reportedly meant to explain to Congress why the FBI chose not to recommend charging Clinton for mishandling classified information.

The investigative report will contain notes from the FBI’s three-hour interview with Clinton and conversations with other witnesses. The FBI will provide other investigative material to Congress along with the notes.

The material being released to Congress will be considered classified and cannot be shared with the public. The notes of Clinton’s interview are highly classified because she and the FBI discussed the 22 emails on her server that were deemed top secret and could not be publicized for national security reasons.

Clinton and other State Department staffers who were interviewed by the FBI did so on a voluntary basis. These interviews were not recorded; notes were taken by an FBI agent instead to "memorialize" them.

Update: After this article was originally published, a spokeswoman for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said in an email Tuesday that the FBI had turned over "a number of documents" on its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, according to Reuters.