Richard Blumenthal on Monday weighed in on FBI Director Patrick Comey’s decision to tell Congress that his agency may have found more emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server.
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The tune of top Democrats has dramatically changed in recent days after Comey announced he had reopened the investigation into Clinton after new emails were discovered.
Trump, 70, said he believed that if Clinton were elected, the American people would be subjected to the unprecedented scenario of a commander in chief facing criminal charges.
A girl poses for photos with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump posters at Hofstra University in NY, the United States on September 26, 2016.
But with 650,000 emails to sift through, it is unlikely the FBI will be able to conclude its investigation before election day.
While the race for the White House has gotten tighter since the email controversy resurfaced, polls give Clinton as much as a 3-point lead over Trump nationwide.
It comes as Clinton and her allies are trying to dismiss the FBI Director but it seems that some of her surrogates aren’t sharing the same message.
“Let’s get the information out on Hillary Clinton that he supposedly might have”, he said. The emails were discovered during a separate FBI investigation of Abedin’s estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, for allegedly sending sexually explicit emails to a minor.
The longtime Hillary Clinton aide at the center of a renewed FBI email investigation testified under oath four months ago she never deleted old emails, despite promising in 2013 not to take sensitive files when she left the State Department. But he provided few other details, leaving observers to guess about the content of the emails discovered while investigating the sexting habits of Anthony Weiner, the former NY congressman and now-estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. WikiLeaks has been posting messages it stole from various servers, related to Clinton’s work as secretary of state and her campaign for president.
“I think he felt compelled when he found there possibly – and I put quotes around possibly – was new information that he needed to inform Congress”, Grassley said Monday after speaking to the Cedar Rapids Downtown Rotary.
Agents will narrow down the emails to examine only those dating from Clinton’s time as secretary of state.
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Per the article, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation official said that the intelligence statement from earlier this month claiming Russian was meddling in the election didn’t have the FBI’s name on it due to Comey’s concerns.
