Hillary Clinton Campaign Responds to FBI Analyzing Emails

“It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election.”

October 28, 2016

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Today, news broke that the FBI was examining newly discovered emails with regard to Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified information, according to a letter from FBI Director James Comey to some members of Congress. The emails were uncovered on a device that was used by Huma Abedin, who is the wife of former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner and also Hillary's top aide. The investigation into Weiner’s sexting with a 15-year-old girl apparently brought the FBI’s attention to the device and the potential “thousands” of emails, which “appear to be pertinent” to Hillary Clinton, The New York Times reported.

Now, Hillary for America Chair John Podesta has released a statement in response to Comey’s letter, and the language is firm. You can read Podesta's statement in full here:

“Upon completing this investigation more than three months ago, FBI Director Comey declared no reasonable prosecutor would move forward with a case like this and added that it was not even a close call. In the months since, Donald Trump and his Republican allies have been baselessly second-guessing the FBI and, in both public and private, browbeating the career officials there to revisit their conclusion in a desperate attempt to harm Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
“FBI Director Comey should immediately provide the American public more information than is contained in the letter he sent to eight Republican committee chairmen. Already, we have seen characterizations that the FBI is ‘reopening’ an investigation but Comey’s words do not match that characterization. Director Comey’s letter refers to emails that have come to light in an unrelated case, but we have no idea what those emails are and the Director himself notes they may not even be significant.
“It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election.
“The Director owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what he is now examining. We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July.”

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