Hillary Clinton Demands FBI Explain Renewed Investigation in Her Emails

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10-29-2016

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With less than two weeks before the election, Hillary Clinton is back in the hot seat over her private email server and she is demanding that the FBI explain why it is investigating a new set of emails.

FBI Director James B. Comey informed Congress on Friday that the bureau would examine fresh emails related to Clinton's time as secretary of state. The announcement came after emails were seized from former Rep. Anthony Weiner.

Weiner, husband of Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin, is under investigation for allegedly exchanging sexually explicit text messages to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. Abedin and Weiner are separated, but not divorced.

More than 1,000 email messages were found on a computer used by Weiner and Abedin and some included correspondence between Abedin and Clinton, according to law enforcement officials.

Comey wrote an open letter to congressmen stating that the FBI would take "appropriate investigative steps" to determine whether the emails contain classified information. He added that they would determine if the emails are relevant to the Clinton server probe, the Washington Times reports.

Clinton told reporters Friday night in Iowa that she only became aware of the newly discovered emails after the letter to Congress was made public.

"I'm confident whatever [the emails] are will not change the conclusion reached in July," she said. "Therefore, it's imperative that the bureau explain this issue in question, whatever it is, without any delay.

It is a crucial time for the Clinton campaign as thousands of emails have been released by WikiLeaks in the weeks leading up to the election.

"Hillary Clinton's corruption is on a scale we have never seen before. We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office," Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said.

"I have great respect for the fact that the FBI and the DOJ are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made," Trump said, referring also to the Department of Justice. "This was a grave miscarriage of justice that the American people fully understand. It is everybody's hope that it is about to be corrected."

Meanwhile, new evidence appears to show how hackers stole more than 50,000 emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta earlier this year. Hackers sent Podesta an official-looking email in mid-March that appeared to be from Google.

The message told Podesta that someone in Ukraine received his personal Gmail password and attempted to log-in. The message directed him to a website where he should "change your password immediately."

Podesta's chief of staff, Sara Latham, sent the email to the operations help desk of Clinton's campaign. Staffer Charles Delavan in Brooklyn, New York, responded 25 minutes later and said, "this is a legitimate email. John needs to change his password immediately," the Associated Press reported.

But the email was not authentic. Instead, the link sent Podesta's information to a computer in the Netherlands where hackers were later able to download tens of thousands of emails from his account and post them online.

The Clinton campaign declined to discuss the incident.

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