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Updated: Tuesday, August 16, 2016, 7:55 PM

WASHINGTON Notes of the FBI's interview with Hillary Clinton that were shared with congressional staff Tuesday afternoon showed the Democratic nominee indeed was "extremely careless" with classified information, while offering no obvious examples that she had previously misled Congress in her testimony, according to those familiar with the contents of the documents.

A Democrat with knowledge of the report's contents said that while Clinton's interview suggested a pattern of recklessness and lack of sophistication in regards to security measures, everything she said was consistent with her previous statements to Congress.

That testimony explains why FBI Director James Comey described her as being "extremely careless" with classified information when he announced the department recommended against prosecution.

House and Senate staff were initially not allowed to take any notes on the sole copy of the report each branch of Congress received in a classified setting, and were limited in the time they were allowed to look at it.

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That prevented a comprehensive review of the material, which included more than a dozen pages of notes of the interview with Clinton as well as the more than 100 emails the FBI says contained classified information at the time they were sent. The FBI ordered that the details of the report, much of which was classified as secret, should not be disseminated publicly.

Clinton's campaign called for the notes to be widely released, pointing out the "extraordinarily rare step" of releasing the information at all is a break with the FBI's normal protocol. As a general rule, when the FBI decides against recommending prosecution they don't share the details of their decision-making process.

"We believe that if these materials are going to be shared outside the Justice Department, they should be released widely so that the public can see them for themselves, rather than allow Republicans to mischaracterize them through selective, partisan leaks," Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon told NBC.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said the notes of the interview should be available to the public.

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"The FBI should make as much of the material available as possible. The public's business ought to be public, with few exceptions. The people's interest would be served in seeing the documents that are unclassified. The FBI has made public statements in describing its handling of the case, so sharing documents in support of those statements wherever appropriate would make sense. Right now, the public is at a disadvantage and has only part of the story," the Iowa Republican said.

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