Clinton Requests For Facts of New FBI Email Investigation

Hillary Clinton has insisted the FBI clarify without delay why it is implementing a new investigation into her use of emails.

 She said that Americans “deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately”.

The FBI says it has new emails about her use of a private server when she was secretary of state.

The new investigation was announced 11 days before the election. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the move was the “biggest political scandal since Watergate”.

A probe into the separated husband of top Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, led to the discovery of the latest emails.

The FBI earlier launched an investigation into whether former high-flying congressman Anthony Weiner forwarded sexually explicit emails to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. Consequently, devices belonging to Abedin and Weiner were appropriated.

FBI director James Comey disclosed the discovery of the new emails in a letter to Congress on Friday.

The director said that he did not know yet the implication of the findings. But the FBI would investigate if any of the emails held confidential information.

Democrat presidential candidate Mrs. Clinton said she was assured the investigation into the emails would not alter the FBI’s initial finding in July.

The FBI determined she should not be incriminated for her use of a private email server as secretary of state. Clinton held the position from 2009 to 2013.

She told reporters on the campaign trail in Des Moines, Iowa, on Friday: “It’s imperative that the bureau explain this issue in question, whatever it is, without any delay,”

While James Rubin, a senior media adviser to Clinton’s campaign, told the BBC on Saturday that “when all of this is over, this is going to be a gigantic tempest in a teapot”.

He also insinuated that to avoid the FBI from being criticized by the Republicans after the election, they decided to send the letter now.

On the other side, Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters at a rally in Iowa: “It’s everybody’s hope that justice, at last, can be delivered.”

“The FBI would never have reopened this case at this time unless it were a most egregious criminal offense.”

He likened the latest incident to that of the 1970s Watergate scandal that swamped former Republican President Richard Nixon.

The FBI has already determined the Democratic candidate had confidential information on a private email server.

In July, Comey cleared Clinton of any criminal wrongdoing. However, he said Mrs. Clinton’s managing of confidential material during her time as secretary of state was “extremely careless”.

The disclosure that she held sensitive material while violating federal rules by operating her own email server out of her upstate New York home has stalked her campaign since last year.

John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, condemned the FBI’s “exceptional” timing.

Paul Ryan, the House of Representatives Speaker, described the FBI pronouncement “long overdue”.

The highest-ranked elected Republican repeated his call for the Director of National Intelligence. He asked him again to stop classified updates for the Democratic candidate.

“She was entrusted with some of our nation’s most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information,” he said.

She said sorry

The New York Times first disclosed the then-secretary of state’s private email server in March 2015.

She did not immediately convey regret. She stated that “convenience” was the main reason for her “hdr22@clintonemail.com” address.

Shortly after that, she apologized in an interview with ABC News. She has since said sorry to voters several times.

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