Hillary Clinton slams the FBI director over his “strange” decision to re-open her email probe just days before the election
HILLARY Clinton ramped up her war against the FBI director over his "strange, unprecedented and deeply troubling" decision to re-open her email probe.
She hit out at James Comey after he released a bombshell letter confirming the FBI was to re-open the probe into the presidential front-runner’s private email server.
Clinton, who has been in Florida as part of the US Presidential campaign, said: "If you're like me, you probably have a few questions about it.
"It is pretty strange. It's pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information, right before an election.
"In fact, it's not just strange it's unprecedented and it's deeply troubling."
She continued: "Voters deserve to get full and complete facts. And so we call on Director Comey to explain everything right away."
She urged Comey to "put it all out on the table".
US Attorney General Loretta Lynch had urged Comey to follow the Justice Department's practice of not taking actions that could influence the outcome of a presidential election – now just ten days away.
But Comey’s decision to make the investigation public – and not include specific details – was blasted by Clinton’s team, who fear it could cost her on November 8.
Clinton herself said on Friday: "We are 11 days out from perhaps the most important election of our lifetimes, so the American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately.
"The director himself has said he doesn't know whether the emails referenced in his letter are significant or not.
“I'm confident whatever they are will not change the conclusion reached in July. Therefore it is imperative that the bureau explain this issue in question whatever it is without any delay.”
Donald Trump has closed the gap on Clinton significantly in the polls – with one ABC News/Washington Post tracker showing her lead down to two points from 12 in just one week.
Clinton’s campaign spokesman John Podesta blasted Comey’s letter as “long on innuendo and short on facts” and branded the issue “overblown”.
He said: “Despite initial reporting the letter amounted to a quote unquote reopening of the investigation…it seems that that is not at all the case.
“It's had to see how this amounts to anything. Comey has not been forthcoming with the facts.”
Director Comey announced a new probe into Clinton’s private email server in a letter to congress on Friday – after clearing her of criminal wrongdoing in July.
It was launched after agents probing an alleged underage sexting scandal involving ex-politician Anthony Weiner came across a tranche of emails from Huma Abedin.
She is the former partner of Weiner and a close aide to Clinton. The FBI told the Justice Department that Comey intended to go public.
They said the department’s position was “we don’t comment on an ongoing investigation” and “we don’t take steps that will be viewed as influencing an election”.
The source said: “Director Comey understood our position. He is operating independently of the Justice Department. And he knows it.”
Comey, in a letter to FBI employees, said: “Of course, we don’t ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record.”
His did not go into detail about where the new emails had come from.
But hours later, sources in Washington revealed they had not come from Clinton’s server – but from the Weiner investigation.
Weiner has been embroiled in a number of sexting scandals with women - before he was caught allegedly engaging in lewd conversations with a 15-year-old girl in September.
The revelations saw the FBI launch a probe – as the girl was underage – and seize computer equipment.
Bizarrely, Donald Trump claims he PREDICTED his rival’s email scandal with Weiner.
Last year he tweeted: “It came out that Huma Abedin knows all about Hillary’s private illegal emails. Huma’s PR husband, Anthony Weiner, will tell the world.”
And last summer he added: “I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information.
“Who knows what he learned and who he told?”
Weiner was alleged to have exchanged sexually-charged messages with the teen for months after they struck up conversation on Twitter in January.
He told the girl he woke up “hard” after thinking about her, sent her shirtless photos, and complimented her body.
The girl alleged that during Skype conversations, Weiner asked her to get undressed and touch herself.
She claimed he also asked her to dress up in school girl outfits and pretend he was her teacher and brought up “rape fantasies”.
In one lewd message, he was said to have told the teen: “I would bust that tight p**** so hard and so often that you would leak and limp for a week.”
In July, Trump blasted the decision to clear Clinton of criminal wrongdoing in the first email server probe as evidence that the system and FBI were “rigged”.
Comey’s first probe ranked 110 messages from Clinton’s private server in 52 email chains as “classified” with eight of those chains found to contain “top secret” information.
Trump tweeted on Saturday: “I am in Colorado - big day planned - but nothing can be as big as yesterday!”
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