James Comey: FBI has found no criminal wrongdoing in new Clinton emails
The
FBI has determined that a new batch of emails linked to Hillary Clinton’s
private email server “have not changed our conclusion” that she committed no
criminal wrongdoing, FBI director James Comey told
congressional leaders in a letter on Sunday.
As campaigning continued ahead of Tuesday’s presidential
election, a Clinton spokeswoman said the candidate was “glad this matter is resolved”.
The Democratic
nominee’s opponent, Donald Trump, reacted with anger at the news, and cast
doubt on whether the FBI had even carried out its work. “You can’t review 650,000
emails in eight days,” Donald Trump told a campaign rally in Sterling Heights,
Michigan on Sunday evening.
On 28 October, only 11 days before the presidential election, Comey sent
congressional leaders a letter informing them that agents had discovered emails
“that appear pertinent” to a prior investigation, into Clinton’s use of a
private server while she was secretary of state. It was later reported that as many as 650,000 such emails were in question.
The move, so close
to an election, proved
tremendously controversial. In July, Comey had announced that Clinton and her
aides were “extremely careless” but that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring
a case against them.
“Since my letter,
the FBI investigative team has been working around the clock to process and
review a large volume of emails from a device obtained in connection with an
unrelated criminal investigation,” Comey wrote to Congress on Sunday.
“During that
process, we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while
she was secretary of state.”
“Based on our
review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with
respect to Secretary Clinton,” he concluded. “I am grateful to the
professionals at the FBI for doing an extraordinary amount of high-quality work
in a short period of time.”
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