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FBI re-opens Hillary email investigation, will House Democrats disavow?

October 28, 2016

Today, FBI Director James Comey announced that the Bureau was reopening its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server in light of new evidence. With a potential indictment now hanging over the head of their party’s scandal-plagued nominee for President, will House Democrats finally disavow Hillary Clinton and her decades of lies and corruption?

  • In his initial announcement that the FBI was not recommending charges in connection to Hillary Clinton’s private email server, Director Comey called Clinton’s behavior “extremely careless.”
    • Comey also said that while there was evidence of potential violations of federal law, they lacked evidence that those violations were intentional.
  • Subsequent to the FBI report, we learned that the FBI uncovered nearly 15,000 emails that Clinton did not originally turn over from her private server.
  • And now today, the FBI announced it is reopening its investigation into Clinton’s email server, due to the fact that it has found new evidence pertinent to the case during a separate investigation.

Background:

‘Extremely careless,’ but FBI advises no charges for Clinton’s emails. The FBI recommended Tuesday that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges over her use of private email servers as secretary of State, even though she and aides were “extremely careless” in handling classified information. While FBI Director James Comey offered a harsh rebuke of Clinton and her aides for mishandling classified, top-secret information, he said there is no evidence Clinton intended to do so, the basis for criminal charges. (David Jackson and Kevin Johnson, USA Today, 7/5/16)

FBI uncovers 14,900 more documents in Clinton email probe. The FBI’s year-long investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server uncovered 14,900 emails and documents from her time as secretary of state that had not been disclosed by her attorneys, and a federal judge on Monday pressed the State Department to begin releasing emails sooner than mid-October as it planned. (Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, 8/22/16)

FBI to Re-Open Investigation Into Hillary Clinton’s Email Server. The FBI will re-open its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, bureau director James Comey said in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday. “In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation … I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation,” he wrote. (Kasie Hunt, NBC News, 10/28/16)