FBI Director James Comey has made it known (on a Friday of course) that the Bureau will be reopening the Hillary Clinton case to look at new information.
Comey sent this letter to Congress today:
Comey says there are newly discovered emails that FBI will now investigate, reopening Clinton email server case. pic.twitter.com/hEKPQ7R1x3
— Brit Hume (@brithume) October 28, 2016
FBI Director Comey, in letter to members of Congress, says FBI is investigating additional emails in Clinton private server case pic.twitter.com/Ue0qlhqT5w
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) October 28, 2016
We’ll update the story as more is known.
Update:
Pete Williams sources say in course of a separate investigation, FBI came across "a device." found emails there. but emails NOT from HRC
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 28, 2016
Reporting from @PeteWilliamsNBC: This is not a "reopening" of the email investigation. As a technical matter, it was never closed
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) October 28, 2016
More @PeteWilliamsNBC: Comey letter was sent to Hill "out of an abundance of caution" to be extra thorough 2/
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) October 28, 2016
.@PeteWilliamsNBC adds: There is no sense that any of this was due to withholding of evidence. New emails discovered on "another device" 3/
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) October 28, 2016
And @PeteWilliamsNBC says that while the political consequences of today's news could be substantial, they might not be legally 4/
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) October 28, 2016
BREAKING: US official: Newly discovered emails related to Clinton investigation did not come from her private server.
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 28, 2016
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