The FBI director James Comey has just confirmed that the Hilary Clinton email probe is official over. In a new letter to Congress said there is nothing new that would lead to a different conclusion than the one reached in July.
This must be a big relief to the Clinton campaign with just 36 hours to the presidential election as Clinton’s lead in the polls had reduced since Comey wrote to Congress last week Friday that the probe would be reopened on grounds of new emails that emerged.
But many feel that the damage had already been done to Clinton may have lost a lot of undecided independent voters, who could have voted in early voting. About 40 million Americans have already voted in early voting.
Before the FBI shocker of reopening the investigation, Hilary Clinton had looked unstoppable and was coasting to victory as she lead comfortably in the national poll of polls and had some double digit lead in some key battleground states.
It is widely believed that the FBI under Comey has influenced and stirred up the 2016 election in a manner that is unprecedented.
Comey said the FBI has worked “around the clock to process and review a large number of emails” obtained from a computer belonging to Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former congressman and estranged husband of a top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
Clinton’s campaign welcomed the FBI announcement.
“We’re glad this matter is resolved,” Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s communications director, told reporters traveling with the campaign to Ohio.
Clinton was angered by Comey’s decision to alert Congress late last month that the FBI was reviewing new materials even when he had not had the opportunity of seeing what the new mails look like. She called it “unprecedented” and “deeply troubling.” The decision shattered what had appeared to be Clinton’s solid grip on the race and emboldened Republican Donald Trump.
Sources say the new mails turned out to be mainly duplicates of what the FBI had seen before and personal emails.
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