Who is ‘running the FBI’? Agency keeps lid on Clinton records, cites lack of ‘public interest’

The FBI said it would not release Hillary Clinton’s FBI files, citing a lack of public interest. / EPA

 

The public just isn’t interested enough in Hillary Clinton’s FBI files to have them released, the agency said in rejecting a lawyer’s open-records request.

“You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject,” FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy told lawyer Ty Clevenger in a letter on Aug. 28.