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FBI Probes Newly Discovered Hillary Clinton Emails and Reopens Investigation (telegraph.co.uk)

The FBI said Friday it is reviewing newly discovered emails related to Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server to determine whether she properly handled classified emails. The reopening of the investigation comes after the FBI recently "learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the Clinton investigation," FBI director James Comey said. Comey added, however, that "FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant." It is also unclear "how long it will take us to complete this additional work." FBI's announcement today is "certain" to become an issue in the final two weeks of the presidential campaign, however. Donald Trump is naturally pleased hearing the news, at New Hampshire, Trump said the new probe offered the FBI the chance to correct a "grave miscarriage of justice." He added, "We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office." Supporters responded with chants of "Lock her up!" Trump added that the email investigation is "bigger than Watergate."

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  1. Alt title: FBI attempts to appease masses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    However, they do plan to take 5 years to analyze the data, then decide that despite being complete flagrant violations of Federal law, the information leaked is no longer a national security issue, so they will not recommend any charges.

  2. Re:Oh drop it already by unixisc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, Comey should drop out of the investigation, and someone else at the FBI should take over from him. He is either stupid, or compromised, or both.

    And Trump is in no position to drive this or any other thing. Only people who can is the Obama administration. Yeah, WikiLeaks has been exposing all this, but they already have the standard template response of Putin pulling their strings, so why are they so worried?

  3. Re:Had Bernie won... by unixisc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bernie might have been unelectable... in the 80s or even the 90s. He's not unelectable today: the country is a lot more Leftist than it ever was in history. Most people alive today were born after the end of the Soviet Union, so have no clue about the horrors of Communism. Which is why you have college students thinking that Socialism is a philosophy about maximizing the impact of social media. As it is, there is a huge percentage of the population that will strictly vote by party lines, and if one tosses in Bernie's crowds, he'd have thumped Trump in these polls