Clinton campaign defends immunity deal for aide Mills, others in FBI email probe

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

The Hillary Clinton campaign on Sunday defended the Justice Department's decision to grant immunity to Cheryl Mills and other Clinton aides in the FBI’s investigation into Clinton's use of a private server system while secretary of state.

 

Clinton campaign strategist Joel Benenson told “Fox News Sunday” that such deals are “fairly routine” and pressed the point that Mills received only “limited immunity.”

 

Revelations about Mills, a chief of staff for Clinton at the State Department, and two other staffers being granted immunity as part of the FBI probe emerged last week in an Associated Press interview with House oversight committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah.

 

Benenson said such immunity is granted to encourage witnesses to cooperate by ensuring them that anything uncovered in their files outside the scope of the investigation cannot be used against them.

 

In Mills’ case, she turned over a laptop computer, and her testimony in the FBI investigation and potential testimony before Congress was not covered in the immunity deal.

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