FBI’s Comey tells Congress email review completed.
(FOX)- FBI Director James Comey said Sunday that the agency has reviewed all of the Hillary Clinton emails recently discovered in an unrelated case and that his conclusion in July not to prosecute Clinton after the FBI’s original investigation into her use of a private email server still stands.
Comey informed Congress on Oct. 28 that the agency would in the unrelated case review additional emails related to Clinton’s time running the State Department from 2009 to 2013.
“Since my letter, the FBI investigative team has been working around the clock to process and review a large volume of emails,” Comey said Sunday in a follow-up letter to Congress. “During that time we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusion.”
A Department of Justice spokesperson said that agency and the FBI “dedicated all necessary resources to conduct this review expeditiously.”
When asked where the email investigation stands after Comey’s letter, a senior law enforcement official close to the probe described the matter to Fox News as “closed.”
Attorney General Loretta Lynch was briefed on the FBI’s findings before Comey sent the letter, the official said. Lynch’s position on the email investigation, “has not changed,” meaning that she’ll accept the findings of the agents and prosecutors on the case, according to the official.