Reminding us that “Upon completing this investigation more than three months ago, FBI Director Comey declared no reasonable prosecutor would move forward with a case like this and added that it was not even a close call,” the Clinton campaign has responded to FBI Director James Comey’s letter to congressional Republicans saying that the FBI is looking at newly uncovered emails to see if they are pertinent to that previously completed investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails. Campaign chair John Podesta’s statement calls on Comey to “immediately provide the American public more information,” because:
Already, we have seen characterizations that the FBI is 'reopening' an investigation but Comey's words do not match that characterization. Director Comey's letter refers to emails that have come to light in an unrelated case, but we have no idea what those emails are and the Director himself notes they may not even be significant.
"It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election.
"The Director owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what he is now examining. We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July."
That sounds like a very polite way of saying Comey’s action looks a little political here.