Trump slams Clinton after FBI opens fresh inquiry into her emails – as it happened

00:37 Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House intelligence committee and a Democrat from California, has released a mild rebuke of th...

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Adam Schiff, ranking member of the House intelligence committee and a Democrat from California, has released a mild rebuke of the FBI.

Throughout the investigation into Secretary Clinton’s emails, which resulted in a finding that no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges, Director Comey and the FBI have provided unprecedented transparency. While I have at times disagreed with the extent of the Director’s departure from DOJ’s sound policy of declining comment on pending or closed investigations, I recognize that this investigation presents unique challenges for the FBI.

Nevertheless, the deliberately ambiguous nature of the Director’s most recent disclosure -- the emails could be significant or insignificant, relevant or irrelevant -- contributes nothing to the public’s understanding. When coupled with the acknowledgment that more information will take an indeterminate period of time, it is difficult to see how this latest departure from Department policy has served the public interest.

Schiff has tried to strike out a middle ground between outrage, which his Senate colleague Dianne Feinstein has expressed, and a slightly baffled willingness to hear the FBI out, as some Republicans in Congress have done. Texas senator John Cornyn, for instance, tweeted out some of his questions earlier Friday afternoon.

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