WASHINGTON, D.C. Nov. 6, 2016 (Gephardt Daily) — FBI Director James Comey appears to have dropped another bomb in the waning hours of the 2016 presidential campaign.
In a letter sent to high ranking members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee Sunday, Comey informed Congress that after reviewing email discovered in an investigation into Anthony Weiner — husband of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin — the FBI had once again determined Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges for her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
“Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July,” Comey wrote.
It was a little more than a week ago that the FBI director rocked the presidential campaign after revealing to those same congressional leaders he wrote to Sunday, that emails possibly connected to their investigation of Clinton’s email practices had been discovered on one of Anthony Weiner’s computers.
The Clinton campaign was quick to respond to Sunday’s FBI findings.
“We were always confident that nothing would cause the July decision to be revisited. Now Director Comey has confirmed it,” wrote Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon on social media.
Comey had been heavily criticized in recent days for informing congressional leaders of the newly discovered email before reaching any concrete conclusions of wrongdoing on Clinton’s part.
