Breaking: FBI Reopens Hillary Email Investigation!
Hillary's Email-Gate: From the White House to the Jail House? Nothing is over yet folks. In fact, it's just now getting very interesting. -W.E.
The FBI, which has been widely criticized for declining to refer criminal charges against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over her use of an unapproved email system for classified information, now is reopening the investigation.
The move was reported Friday by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah.
The word comes as polls show Clinton's support for her presidential bid is declining.
But he concluded no charges should be referred to the Justice Department.
CNBC reported Friday that Comey explained the latest development in a letter.
Comey said he was unsure yet whether the material was significant.
The letter was addressed to several lawmakers who held committee hearings on the issue.
But the action comes as the Clinton campaign has identified as its biggest hurdle the fact that many simply don't believe her anymore.
Last month, Comey rejected calls to reopen the investigation into the private email server through which she directed classified national security details.
At that time, he told Congress none of the revelations that had developed since he locked down the case in July "would come near" to making him take that step.
When the email scandal is brought up, the Clinton campaign defends the candidate by insisting the FBI cleared her.
The FBI's assessment in July, however, wasn't quite so complimentary.
Investigators found they probably couldn't make charges stick because Clinton isn't sophisticated enough to know the "risks" she was running with a separate email system, "or even to understand the classification system in which she was a key player," the Times reported.
There has been no end to the email controversy over Clinton's use of an unsecured system for classified details, with recent revelations from WikiLeaks even confirming members of her staff were horrified by the arrangements.
WND also reported just weeks ago that there might have been found a "smoking gun" in the scandal, as an aide apparently had asked the online community about the best process for stripping out IDs from archived emails.
"Apparently somebody working IT for Hillary went to Reddit and ask[ed] Redditors if any of them knew how to do this! 'Do you know how to strip/remove content from very VIP emails?' This request was made on July 24, 2014," he said.
"You know what happened? You know what happened the day before? On July 23, 2014, a congressional committee chaired by Trey Gowdy confirmed a deal to get Hillary Clinton's records and emails.
The claims were outlined by Guy Benson at Townhall.
"'Smoking gun' may be a slight exaggeration, but the circumstantial case here looks pretty strong. Bravo to the Internet sleuths who ferreted out this virtual paper trail, which leads back to a techie who was granted immunity by U.S. officials in the course of their criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton's email scandal," he wrote.
He cited the Allahpundit blogger's explanation as about the clearest of a complicated issue.
That blog said there's "compelling circumstantial evidence" that a poster who was identified as "stonetear" could be Paul Combetta, the Platte River Networks tech who worked on Hillary Clinton's email.
He recently was granted immunity from the feds for his testimony.
The blogger's explanation continues, with the reference to the dates, the July 23 House Select Committee on Benghazi agreement on the production of Clinton's records and emails, and the subsequent request for advice on stripping emails on the 24th.
"Oddly enough, stonetear seems to have been interested in precisely the same recordkeeping issues that Paul Combetta would have been interested in with Hillary Clinton as his client at precisely the same times that he would have been most interested," the blogger pointed out.