Rep. Peter King Friday slammed Hillary Clinton to Newsmax as "incredibly negligent" after the FBI released documents on their private interview on her private email use in July because "she really put the country at risk."
"It shows how concerned the CIA and others were that the country had been put at risk," the New York Republican said in an interview.
"This is not something she can write off as being a slight mistake or that all the questions had been answered," he added. "They haven't."
The FBI released heavily redacted documents from its three-and-a-half hour confidential session with Clinton at her home on a Saturday, July 2, in Washington.
The agency later concluded that the Democrat never sought or asked permission to use a private server or email address during her four years as the nation's top diplomat, which violated federal records-keeping policies.
King, 72, is a member of the House Homeland Security Committee. He was first elected to Congress in 1992.
"When we're talking about secrets of this nature, including drones, the fact that she could've been hacked is just the height of irresponsibility," he told Newsmax.
King also noted that the FBI pointed out that Clinton was unable to recall critical information about the server, its security or whether she had sent or received classified data via the private system.
"She said that she really didn't have much knowledge of how this was done and she couldn't recall key details of events involving classified information," he said. "She was the secretary of state.
"She is going to do something so extraordinary as to have a private server? You would've thought that she would've immersed herself in how do you determine what's classified, what's not, how you protect it, how you don't.
"This isn't something that she stumbled into," the congressman told Newsmax. "She went out of her way to set up that private system.
"If you're going to do that, which is bad enough to begin with, but the least she should've done was followed all the precautions, find out exactly what possible safeguards that she could use — and she just didn't do it.
"To me, it's just terribly irresponsible."