August 11, 2022 5:17pm EDT
National Archives official who notified DOJ in Trump probe declined to do the same over Clinton emails
Ferriero said he didn't believe it was 'appropriate or necessary' to notify the DOJ about Hillary Clinton's emails in 2015
By Thomas Catenacci | Fox News
The official who triggered the federal probe into former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents opted against doing the same concerning Hillary Clinton's email scandal.
David Ferriero, who served as the director of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) from November 2009 until he retired this past April, said in a February letter to House Oversight Committee leadership that his staff had started communicating with the Department of Justice (DOJ) earlier this year.
In January, Trump returned 15 boxes of documents from his time in office to NARA after the agency notified him the material belonged to the federal government.
"Because NARA identified classified information in the boxes, NARA staff has been in communication with the Department of Justice," Ferriero wrote in his Feb. 18 letter.
After negotiations regarding additional documents broke down between Trump and federal investigators in recent months, the DOJ obtained a search warrant to obtain additional missing documents. On Monday, FBI agents raided Trump's southern Florida home seeking the documents.
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