BREAKING: FBI Once Again Investigating Hillary Clinton's Emails
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The FBI is once again investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails, FBI Director James Comey wrote in a letter to members of Congress on Friday.
“In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation,” Comey wrote, adding that the bureau will look into those emails to “determine whether they contain classified information.”
Comey did not specify in the letter who wrote the emails or whether Clinton or a staffer at the State Dept. under her tenure was involved. It is unclear whether the emails are ‘significant,” Comey said, but he wanted to keep Congress in the loop.
What the FBI has so far
The FBI closed its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server earlier this year, finding that while her emails did contain some classified information, only a handful of emails were marked as such. The FBI ultimately signaled that there was insufficient evidence that Clinton had intentionally misused classified materials and advised prosecutors at the Dept. of Justice not to move forward.
You can read about the FBI’s notes from the investigation so far here.
After the FBI moved on, some Republicans requested that Comey testify before Congress about the investigation, pushing him on why the bureau closed it, even though Clinton had sent some classified materials through her private email. Many of those members will be pleased with today’s announcement.
Meanwhile, the State Dept., which had put its own investigation on hold until the FBI was finished, reopened their own investigation. It’s unclear whether they’ll hit the pause button again now that the FBI is looking back into the case.
Reactions
Donald Trump responded to Comey's letter during a campaign rally in New Hampshire on Friday, saying: "I have great respect for the fact that the FBI and the Department of Justice are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made."
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta called on Comey to release more information on Friday, saying that the American public needs the "full details" on what the FBI is looking at. A former Justice Dept. spokesman argued that Comey's vagueness in the letter was inappropriate, according to Politico. DOJ “'goes out of its way to avoid publicly discussing investigations' when elections are close ... 'because voters have no way to interpret FBI/DOJ activity in a neutral way,'" former DOJ spokesman Matthew Miller argued.
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