FBI Reopening Hillary Email Investigation

It take a lot for the FBI to reopen an investigation.  It takes even more for the FBI to reopen an investigation of a presidential candidate eleven days before the election. The first inkling was  a tweet from Rep. Jason Chaffetz

FBI Dir just informed me, “The FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation.” Case reopened

— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) October 28, 2016

About ten minutes after Chaffetz’s tweet came this letter from FBI Director Comey to congressional leaders:

We don’t know when this new criminal investigation will be over, nor what exactly the new material is. However in this highly charged political year less than two weeks before election day, Comey would not reopen the criminal investigation of HiIlary Clinton and do it so publicly, unless he thought it was significant. Whether or not this will have any effect on people’s votes is also unknown. It may be that this kind of news is already baked in to people’s attitudes about Clinton…we shall see. Either way if you are a Trump supporter, it can’t hurt.

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