Thread: Clinton demands 'full and complete facts' from FBI

October 28, 2016, 07:15 pm

Clinton demands 'full and complete facts' from FBI



Hillary Clinton called on the FBI to release more information about newly uncovered emails connected to the investigation into her private server, addressing the issue for the first time at a press conference.


"We are 11 days out from perhaps the most important national election of our lifetimes," Clinton said in a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa. "Voting is already underway in our country, so the American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately."


Clinton took just three questions during the press conference, which lasted about four minutes.

She revealed that the FBI had not contacted her before or since Comey sent a letter to lawmakers Friday afternoon.

"So we don't know the facts, which is why we are calling on the FBI to release all the information that it has," she said. "Even Director Comey noted that this new information may not be significant, so let's get it out."

Comey's letter said that the FBI was reviewing pertinent emails that it found in an unrelated investigation, but did not reveal much more than that.

Republicans and the GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump quickly pounced on the news.

Clinton was asked about a New York Times report that said the FBI had found the new emails in its separate investigation into Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal.

“We’ve heard these rumors,” she said “We don’t know what to believe. And I'm sure there will be even more rumors. That’s why it’s incumbent on the FBI to tell us what they're talking about, Jeff. Your guess is as good as mine and I don't think that’s not good enough.”

Trump seized on the development at a rally in Manchester, N.H., hoping that the FBI would revisit its decision to not call for charges against Clinton.

"Hillary Clinton's corruption is on a scale that we have never seen before,” he said. “We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office. I have great respect for the fact that the FBI and the Department of Justice are now willing to have the courage to right the horrible mistake that they made.

“This was a grave miscarriage of justice that the American people fully understood, and it is everybody’s hope that it is about to be corrected.”


Lawmakers on both sides have called on the FBI to make more information public, including Trump's running mate Mike Pence.

Some Democrats, including Sen. Dianne Feinsten (Calif.) and DNC interim chairwoman Donna Brazile, have even lashed out at Comey for not being forthcoming in the letter and throwing the presidential race into confusion.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...fo-about-email