(DCNF)—House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said Friday that the oversight committee uncovered new information during depositions with former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has held closed-door depositions with the Clintons as part of its investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case. Speaking with reporters after Bill Clinton concluded his closed-door deposition, Comer said the committee pressed both Bill and Hillary Clinton on how the committee should proceed.
“I do think that we picked up some new facts. We asked both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton where we should go from here as a committee because we’re sincere about trying to get the truth to the American people and hold some bad actors accountable,” Comer said.
Comer said investigators confronted the couple with detailed questions about subpoenaed documents and correspondence obtained from the Department of Justice.
“I think we learned some things. We were hoping to get more, but there were many questions, as you will see hopefully in the next 24 hours when the videos are released, that there were a lot of very specific questions about very specific documents and correspondence that were subpoenaed by, that we got from the Department of Justice as well as the Epstein estate,” Comer said. “Many times the Clintons couldn’t recall or didn’t know or denied that they were pertaining to them.”
Prior to the deposition, the House Oversight Committee voted to move forward with contempt of Congress resolutions against Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton after they initially refused to comply with subpoenas in the Epstein investigation, pressing them to appear for scheduled depositions. The committee members warned the Clintons that their refusal to testify would trigger contempt proceedings.
The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed tens of thousands of Epstein-related records from the U.S. Department of Justice, including correspondence, contact logs, photographs and other files tied to the late financier’s activities. The DOJ responded by producing those materials. The committee likewise subpoenaed the Epstein estate for additional records dating from roughly 1990 to 2019, including Epstein’s “birthday book” of letters and other estate documents tied to the investigation.
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