Hillary: FBI has to give us facts

WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton yesterday called on the FBI to release more information about its review of emails that may be related to its investigation into her private server.

The Democratic presidential candidate said the American people deserved to have as much information as possible before they voted on November 8.

“Voting is under way, so the American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately,” she said.

Mrs Clinton, pictured, said she was confident investigators would not find information that would cause the FBI to change its decision not to file charges.

She spoke hours after the FBI announced it was reviewing newly discovered emails to see if they were relevant to its closed investigation into her private email server.

The emails that prompted a new review of Mrs Clinton’s private server were on a device being examined as part of an investigation into former Democratic congressman for New York Anthony Weiner, law enforcement officials said.

The investigation began last month after Mr Weiner exchanged sexually explicit text messages with an underage girl. He is separated from Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

Donald Trump pounced on the event, seeing an oppor- tunity to press the argument he’s long tried to make against Mrs Clinton: That she thinks she’s above the law and that she put US security at risk by using her personal email.

The GOP nominee told cheering supporters at his first campaign rally of the day that he has “great respect” for the fact that the FBI and the Department of Justice are now “willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made” in concluding the investigation earlier.

Mr Trump said of Mrs Clinton: “We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office ... This is bigger than Watergate.”

The disclosure raises the possibility of the FBI reopening the investigation, which it had said was complete in July.

In a letter sent yesterday to congressional leaders, FBI director James Comey said new emails had emerged.

This had prompted the agency to “take appropriate investigative steps” to review information that flowed through the private email sever Mrs Clinton used while secretary of state.

So far, the email controversy hasn’t seemed to hurt her campaign, with surveys showing she is retaining her poll lead.