Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein waits to testify before a House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Oversight of FBI and DOJ Actions Surrounding the 2016 Election” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 28, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
June 28, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number two U.S. Justice Department official said on Thursday that the department needed to correct errors and prevent future violations, in testimony to a House of Representatives committee probing its conduct during the 2016 election.
“We need to correct errors, hold wrongdoers accountable and deter future violations,” Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in his first public comments on an inspector general’s report describing missteps by the FBI in its handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server use while she was secretary of state.
(Reporting by Sarah Lynch and Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
