Democrats pile pressure on FBI's Comey over eleventh-hour Clinton email letter
Spencer Ackerman
The Guardian via MSN
October 31, 2016
The political pressure on FBI director James Comey intensified on Saturday night as four powerful Democratic senators demanded immediate answers about the bureau’s announcement it is examining new material as part of its investigation about Hillary Clinton’s email server.
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Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Dianne Feinstein of California, Thomas Carper of Delaware and Benjamin Cardin of Maryland wrote to Comey and the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, to insist on a thorough briefing by Monday about Comey’s decision to tell congressional officials about new material from an “unrelated case” – a decision that shook the campaigns with only 10 days to go.
“[N]o later than Monday 31 October 2016,” the senators wrote, “we request you provide us with more detailed information about the investigative steps being taken, the number of emails involved, and what is being done to determine how many of the emails are duplicative of those already reviewed by the FBI.”
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