GOP senator calls on FBI to loosen hold on Clinton documents

WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked the FBI on Wednesday to correct what he called its "mistake" of restricting access to unclassified files from its closed investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.

Responding to requests from GOP House members, the FBI on Aug. 16 delivered two large binders containing both classified and unclassified documents to a secure room on Capitol Hill typically reserved for the nation's most closely guarded secrets.

The FBI in July closed the agency's yearlong investigation into whether Clinton and her top aides mishandled classified information that flowed through a private email server located in the basement of her New York home.

FBI case files are typically kept confidential after an investigation is closed without a recommendation for charges, and the Clinton documents were sent to Congress accompanied by written warnings not to leak the information.