FBI: New emails do not change July conclusion against prosecution

Hillary Clinton
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FBI Director James Comey said in a letter to the House Intelligence Committee Sunday that after examination of all the relevant new emails from Hillary Clinton's private server uncovered in connection to the investigation of former Congressman Anthony Weiner's sexting scandal, the bureau has uncovered no evidence leading it to alter its July decision to recommend no criminal charges against Clinton.

The FBI had to sort through some 650,000 messages found on Weiner's laptop to reach this conclusion, leading some to fear that they could not be reviewed by Election Day and that Comey's decision to reopen the Clinton investigation was merely a political ploy.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.