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ByMatthewDaly The Associated Press WASHINGTON Republi- cans signaled they're not done with election-year in- vestigations of Hillary Clin- ton and whether she lied to Congress, even after a House committee signed off Friday on its report into the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The 800-page report by the GOP-led Beng- hazi Committee found no wrongdoing by the former secretary of state, but the two-year inquiry had re- vealed that she used a pri- vate email server for gov- ernment business, trig- gering a yearlong FBI investigation that contin- ues to shadow the pre- sumptive Democratic pres- idential nominee. FBI Director James Comey said this week there weren't grounds to prose- cute Clinton but that she and her aides had been "ex- tremely careless" in their handling of classified in- formation. The committee's 7-4 vote Friday was split along party lines, reflecting partisan- ship that emerged even be- fore the panel's creation in May 2014 and only es- calated since then. Demo- crats have submitted their own report on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks that killed four Americans, including U.S. ambassador Chris Ste- vens. The vote is unlikely to be the final word in the in- quiry that has lasted more than two years and cost $7 million. The panel's chair- man, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R- S.C., said lawmakers may seek a federal investigation into whether Clinton lied to the committee in testimony last year. "If a witness said some- thing to a committee of Congress and/or under oath that's not consistent with the truth, our commit- tee has an obligation" to re- port that to the FBI, Gowdy told reporters. Asked if he was refer- ring to Clinton, Gowdy said, "She's one of 100 witnesses." Under oath, Clinton tes- tified last October that she never sent or received emails marked as classi- fied when she served as secretary of state. She also has said she only used one mobile device for emails and turned over all of her work-related emails to the State Department. Comey said she had multiple de- vices and that investigators found thousands of work- related emails that had not been turned over. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R- Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Gov- ernment Reform Commit- tee, said he would refer Clinton's Oct. 22 testimony to the FBI to investigate whether she lied to Con- gress. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the senior Dem- ocrat on both the Benghazi and Oversight panels, said an FBI referral was "un- warranted," since Comey said only three emails out of more than 30,000 sent or received by Clinton con- tained classified markings. The State Department said the markings on the emails were placed in error and "were no longer neces- sary or appropriate." Cummings and other Democrats criticized the decision by Republicans on the Benghazi panel to con- duct an interview next week with a senior Pentagon offi- cial who criticized the GOP- led panel for making costly and unnecessary requests. The interview, coming af- ter the report, is unneces- sary and excessive, Demo- crats said. "There is no end in sight for this partisan Benghazi Committee," Cummings said. "The Republicans are addicted to Benghazi." Separately, the State De- partment is reopening its internal investigation of possible mishandling of classified information by Clinton and top aides. The internal review was sus- pended in April to avoid interfering with the FBI in- quiry. CONGRESS GOP to Clinton: Email investigations will continue By John-Thor Dahlburg and Monika Scislowska The Associated Press WARSAW, POLAND Lead- ers of the NATO military alliance on Friday began a landmark summit that will order ambitious actions against a daunting array of dangers to the security of their nations and citizenry, including a rearmed and in- creasingly unfriendly Rus- sia to Europe's east and vi- olent Islamic extremism to the south. "As the challenges we face change and evolve, so does NATO," alliance Sec- retary-General Jens Stol- tenberg said as the sum- mit opened. He said the de- cisions to be made by U.S. President Barack Obama and the 27 other heads of state and government will "shape NATO for years." The trans-Atlantic polit- ical and military alliance, founded in 1949, must adapt "so our people are safe, our countries are se- cure and our values are pre- served," said Stoltenberg. Polish President Andrzej Duda, the summit's official host, warned that Western democratic values are be- ing undermined by a "no- torious lack of respect for international law" as well as terrorism and new high- tech techniques of warfare, and said NATO needs a co- herent strategy to combat those problems. After arriving in War- saw, Obama announced the U.S. will send an addi- tional 1,000 U.S. troops to Poland as part of a NATO effort to reinforce its pres- ence on the alliance's fron- tiers near Russia. In an op-ed published in the Financial Times, Obama called on NATO to stand firm against Russia, terror- ism and other challenges, and to "summon the politi- cal will, and make concrete commitments"tostrengthen European cooperation after the British vote in June to leave the European Union. Stoltenberg said that keeping for NATO's mem- ber nations safe includes supporting partner na- tions in the Middle East and North Africa menaced by extremist violence. "For our nations to be safe, it's not enough to keep our defenses strong, we must help to make our partners stronger," he told a pre-summit of defense and security experts. "Training local forces is often our best weapon against violent extremism," Stoltenberg said. Among the items on the summit agenda is increased assis- tance for Iraq's military, ex- tension of the West's finan- cial commitment to the Af- ghan military and police, aid for Tunisia, and getting NATO more involved in the campaign against the Is- lamic State by authorizing use of AWACS surveillance planes to assist the U.S.-led coalition fighting the group. In Warsaw, NATO heads of state and government will also formally order de- ployment of multinational units on the alliance's east- ern borders. The action, telegraphed in advance like most items on the summit program following months of deliberations by NATO member governments, is vigorously opposed by the Kremlin. 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