Justice Gives No Details to Congress in Letter on Clinton Probe
The Clinton campaign is cooperating with investigators, but remained confident that the new discovery was much ado about nothing.
The FBI, which has now obtained a warrant to begin the review, will focus on those emails considered pertinent to its earlier investigation of Clinton’s email server.
“What he did was the right thing”, Trump said as he again accused Clinton of corruption.
The FBI director has been criticised by Democrats and Republicans, as well as the Justice Department, for making the disclosure so close to Election Day.
“The NBC/SurveyMonkey weekly election tracking poll showed Clinton with a six point lead over Trump in the days prior to the Comey news”, the network reported.
“And you have to do what you believe is right, and I really worry that in this particular instance, the Federal Bureau of Investigation director has made an error in judgment in terms of releasing this kind of letter, which really says nothing”.
Agents will compare the latest batch of messages with those previously investigated to review whether any previously unseen missives contain classified information. But he provided few other details, leaving observers to guess about the content of the emails discovered while investigating the sexting habits of Anthony Weiner, the former NY congressman and now-estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Here is why: Comey already has admitted Clinton and her aides were not forthcoming when asked to turn over all emails relevant to the previous probe.
Clinton’s use of a private server while secretary of State and her handling of classified material have been central to Republican attacks on her presidential campaign.
“Thank you, Huma. Good job, Huma”, Trump said, referring to Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide.
Abedin went on to say that she also provided her lawyers with her login and password to access her account on the Clinton server, which she said she used for all work-related matters while serving at the State Department.
The disgraced former congressman, who resigned in 2011 after sending explicit online messages, is under FBI investigation over allegations he sent sexual overtures to a 15-year-old girl.
“I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps created to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation”, added Comey.
“It’s pretty odd to put something like that out with such little information right before an election”, she said.