APNewsBreak: State Department reopens Clinton emails probe

Just days after the FBI and Justice Department said Clinton would not face criminal charges for sending classified emails on her personal server as Secretary of State, the State Department announced it was reopening its internal investigation into the email scandal, Fox News reported.

Apart from the approximately 30,000 work-related emails Clinton turned over to the State Department in 2014, investigators also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not among the group of 30,000 e-mails, said Comey.

“We will aim to be as expeditious as possible, but we will not put artificial deadlines on the process”, Kirby said, according to the Associated Press. “Our goal will be to be as transparent as possible about our results, while complying with our various legal obligations”.

On Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she would accept the recommendations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation not to bring criminal charges against Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee for the November 8 election.

Trump, who polls show faces an uphill battle against Clinton in November, has repeatedly accused Clinton of masking her involvement in illegal activity by deleting more than 30,000 emails she claimed were personal and not related to her job as top USA diplomat. The actions would be kept on file, Kirby said; they could block them from top jobs if Clinton is elected president.

FBI Director James Comey is scheduled to deliver a statement on Tuesday on an unspecified topic.

In response to requests from the State Department, the Clinton camp turned over the other half, roughly 30,000 emails in total, to the State Department in December 2014. “The Inspector General of the State Department has come through and said she clearly violated the rules”.

“So, we have asked for them to go back through any employee that was connected to this, whether that be Huma Abedin, whether that be all the different individuals that are on the email chains and series of chains and say their security clearance should be removed”.

“The American people are exasperated when there are no consequences for the mishandling of state secrets”.