[Denver Post 7 Dec 2017 update] When the FBI began investigating whether Clinton improperly used a private server to send classified emails, it interviewed Platte River’s employees, who were also subpoenaed by the congressional committee. At that point, Platte’s response said they were cooperating with the FBI.
But the committee’s work was not done. In Thursday’s letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, said Suazo failed to produce documents, made false statements and obstructed the committee’s investigation. The committee wants the case to go before a grand jury.
"Instead of cooperation, the Committee was met with obstruction and refusal to comply with subpoenas and requests for transcribed interviews. These actions, taken together, as well as Mr. Suazo’s false statements to the Committee, made through counsel, support the pattern of obstruction. If left unaddressed, Mr. Suazo’s conduct in ignoring lawful congressional subpoenas, misleading the Committee through false statements, and bald refusal to respond to reasonable requests could gravely impair Congress’s ability to exercise its core constitutional authorities of oversight and legislation," reads the letter, signed by Smith.