At a Congressional hearing today, FBI general counsel Howard Shapiro denied allegations about Hillary Rodham Clinton's involvement in the hiring of Craig Livingstone by the White House. Livingstone resigned his position this summer after it was revealed that his office had improperly acquired the FBI files of hundreds of former White House employees. Shapiro said the FBI had not acted improperly by notifying the White House that a former FBI agent had notes of a conversation in which then-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum allegedly said Mrs. Clinton had asked that Livingstone be hired. Shapiro also defended the FBI's questioning of the former agents about the notes.
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