FBI chief: No charges for Hillary Clinton after new emails reviewed

Nine days ago in a Friday afternoon news dump, FBI Director James Comey announced a renewed probe of email messages that were possibly relevant to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

In July, he chastised Clinton’s use of the private mail server but said that the bureau would not be recommending criminal charges against the Democratic nominee.

On Friday, Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon, tweeted, “This sure seems like adequate grounds for an Inspector General review”. During his interview with Blitzer, Giuliani also vaguely suggested he was holding back more, potentially surprising information about Trump’s plan for the final four days, adding quickly, “it has nothing to do with the emails”. Perhaps they don’t understand that Clinton’s handling of “classified” emails – characterized as “extremely careless” by Comey, in one of his departures from normal Justice Department practice – was altogether routine in the federal government, where classification standards vary by department and change often.

President Barack Obama stepped up his warnings Friday to investigators and prosecutors against inserting themselves in the presidential election, saying law enforcement officials can’t be “politicized” or “used as a weapon to advantage either side”. “In the meantime, however, I welcome this news confirming again that no charges are warranted in this matter”.

Internal campaign polling, the source said, found that some independents and Republican women fled Clinton after the original Comey announcement, robbing her of a constituency that she’d hoped would turn her contest with Trump into a blowout.

Her campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri welcomed the move.

The State Department labeled the email a “near dupilcate”, indicating that it was mostly similar to other emails that the agency has released from the trove of emails that Clinton turned over in December 2014. The issue has dogged Clinton’s campaign and contributed to the questions a majority of Americans have about her honesty and trustworthiness.

You are reading news and information on LongIsland.com, Long Island’s Most Popular Website, Since 1996. Included in the new documents was an email in which Clinton forwarded classified information to her daughter, Chelsea, at the unsecure email address [email protected]. The letter was sent to lawmakers less than two weeks before Election Day.