Politics October 28, 2016
After hearing the leaked tape of Trump’s sexist comments about women or watching Mike Pence’s plane slide off an airport runway, you may have thought that the 2016 Presidential election couldn’t get any more surprising. You were wrong. According to reports by CNN and Politico, the FBI is officially reopening its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server.
On Friday, FBI Director James Comey said that the FBI is reviewing more emails from Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State. In a letter to eight congressional city chairman, Comey writes, “In a connection to an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear pertinent to the investigation.” As a result, the FBI has decided to take “appropriate investigative steps” to “determine whether [these emails] contain classified information.”
This decision occurs months after Comey recommended that the Department of Justice not press charges against Hillary Clinton and only eleven days before the election.
How – and in what ways – will these emails impact the presidential election? It’s too soon to tell. Comey has yet to provide an estimated length of the additional review and the FBI is still uncertain “whether or not this material may be significant.”
