HILLARY CLINTON’S lead over Donald Trump had started to look so assured that perhaps only some unforeseen calamity could prevent her becoming president. Then on October 28th, 11 days before the election, the FBI director James Comey announced that he was, in effect, considering reopening an investigation into Mrs Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server as secretary of state. Perhaps no other issue is so obviously loaded with calamitous potential for her campaign.
The FBI concluded its investigation into Mrs Clinton’s email arrangements in September, having ruled that she and her aides had been “extremely careless” in exposing classified information to her inexpertly-secured server, but that they had done nothing criminal. In a letter to Congress, however, Mr Comey said that “in connection with an unrelated case” new emails had emerged which “appear to be pertinent to the investigation”.
To that bombshell he attached what he presumably intended as a caveat. Mr Comey said the FBI was still trying to “determine whether they included classified information” and otherwise “assess their importance to our investigation”. But in the feverish last...Continue reading
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