FBI accused of withholding information in congressional candidate Stearns probe

The congressional candidate who accused former Congressman Cliff Stearns of attempting to bribe him to bail on an election now accuses the FBI of taking a dive in revealing the truth about his allegation.

In court records filed last week, Jimmy Jett, who challenged Stearns in the 2012 Republican primary for Florida's redrawn 3rd Congressional District, maintains that the FBI was 'highly generalized and overly broad' in its rationale for withholding information its agents compiled during the investigation.

Accordingly, the former Clay County court clerk wants a judge to review many of the 66 pages the FBI did disclose to him and determine whether the government acted within the scope of federal public records laws. Continue>>>
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