FBI Director Says Clinton Email Probe Is an 'Investigation' Not an 'Inquiry

FBI Director James Comey dismissed Hillary Clinton's description of the investigation into her private email server.

Clinton and her staff have described the FBI probe as a "security inquiry" but Comey said he is not familiar with that term. 

"I don't know what that means," Comey told reporters today in Washington, D.C. "We're conducting an investigation. That's the bureau's business. That's what we do."

The FBI reportedly has been meeting with top Clinton aides, suggesting the investigation might be in its final stages.

"I don't tether to any particular external deadline," Comey said. "Look, I understand the interest in this particular investigation. And so I do feel the pressure to do it well and promptly. As between the two, I will always choose well."

The staffer who installed Clinton's home server is cooperating with investigators, and a Romanian hacker now in FBI custody claims he broke into her server in 2013.

Clinton, meanwhile, says she never sent or received classified material from her home server. Law enforcement officials say they plan to ask the former secretary of state herself for an interview.