Email controversy grows just days before voters head to polls
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. Approximately 280 pages in some 70 Hillary Clinton-related emails where released by the State Department Friday. The FBI recovered the previously unreleased emails during its year-long investigation of Hillary Clintons private server which contain material Clinton did not turn over in Dec. 2014 when she provided the State Department
with 55000 pages of hand-picked records.
The release Friday marked the 19th and final batch of Clinton emails to be posted publicly before Election Day.
While Clinton claimed they were deleted because they were not work-related most of the emails appear to be related to her job and many have been redacted apparently because they contain sensitive information related to her tenure at the State Department.
FBI Director James Comeys decision last week to reopen the email investigation has resurrected that controversy just a few days before voters head to the polls. He said thousands of additional emails were found on a computer used by her top aide Huma Abedin and her estranged husband Anthony Weiner.
Democrats have harshly criticized Comey for announcing last Friday that the FBI was reopening its probe so close to Election Day. Republicans have viewed his move as a correction to what they considered a flawed Comey decision to close the investigation in the first place believing it is based upon new information found on the computer of Clinton aid Huma Abedins husband Anthony
Weiners computer.
Between May 2015 and February the document dumps became a monthly ritual that kept the email controversy alive throughout the first year of Clintons campaign.
The FBI discovered 15000 emails in the course of their initial investigation and turned those over to the State Department in July. Of those roughly 5600 were deemed work-related and up to half of them were duplicates of emails Clinton already provided.
That left at least 2800 new work-related emails in the batch of records recovered by the FBI.
Clinton has asserted repeatedly that she turned over all work-related emails in 2014 and that the thousands she deleted were purely personal in nature.
