Clinton campaign responds to FBI announcement of further email investigation
Following the FBI's announcement Friday that it would be further reviewing emails potentially related to the investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server, Clinton's campaign has responded by lashing out at FBI Director James Comey.
"It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election," Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said, claiming Comey "should immediately provide the American public more information than is contained in the letter." Podesta added that Comey already "declared no reasonable prosecutor would move forward with a case like this" when he recommended no criminal charges last summer, and that "Donald Trump and his Republican allies" in the intervening months "have been baselessly second-guessing the FBI."
The New York Times confirmed after the FBI's announcement Friday that the emails were discovered during the bureau's investigation into former New York congressman Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Earlier reporting from NBC's Pete Williams had indicated the new messages were not emails sent by Clinton herself, nor were they wrongfully withheld during the initial FBI investigation.
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