11-06-2016, 05:00 PM
Ten days ago, Trump and his campaign were handed a gift from the FBI that allowed them to use new baseless innuendo of criminal conduct against Clinton in the home stretch of the election cycle. I think they made good use of it and milked it for all it was worth.
Clinton's team has been saying publicly that Comey's vague letter to the House Oversight Committee was entirely inappropriate (at the very least), but had no impact on her campaign. I think it clearly hurt and had a measurable impact, personally.
At any rate, that FBI gift has now stopped giving with today's confirmation that the relevant emails found on the Weiner/Abedin laptop were almost all dupes of what had already been reviewed in the original investigation and there were no new classified docs found. The July decision clearing Clinton of any potential criminal charges stands.
FBI DIRECTOR COMEY ANNOUNCEMENT 11/6/16: Since my letter, the FBI investigative team has been working around the clock to process and review a large volume of emails from a device obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation. During that process we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State. Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton. I am very grateful to the professionals at the FBI for doing an extraordinary amount of high-quality work in a short period of time.
Ref: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jame...c62485196a
Clinton's team has been saying publicly that Comey's vague letter to the House Oversight Committee was entirely inappropriate (at the very least), but had no impact on her campaign. I think it clearly hurt and had a measurable impact, personally.
At any rate, that FBI gift has now stopped giving with today's confirmation that the relevant emails found on the Weiner/Abedin laptop were almost all dupes of what had already been reviewed in the original investigation and there were no new classified docs found. The July decision clearing Clinton of any potential criminal charges stands.
FBI DIRECTOR COMEY ANNOUNCEMENT 11/6/16: Since my letter, the FBI investigative team has been working around the clock to process and review a large volume of emails from a device obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation. During that process we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State. Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton. I am very grateful to the professionals at the FBI for doing an extraordinary amount of high-quality work in a short period of time.
Ref: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jame...c62485196a