The director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has written to Congress clearing Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton of any wrongdoing in a cache of 650,000 emails found on a private server last month.
James Comey wrote to the Congress on Sunday saying that the FBI was not changing the decision it made last July not to recommend prosecution of Clinton for holding classified information on her home computer server.
Nine days ago Comey wrote to the U.S. Senate saying new emails had been found on the home computer of a top Clinton aide and that the FBI was therefore revisiting the case against Clinton.
But on Sunday he wrote: "Since my letter, the FBI investigative team has been working around the clock to process and review a large volume of emails from a device obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation.
"During that process we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State. Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton." The decision lifts a air of suspicion around the Clinton campaign just two days before Tuesday's vote. Clinton's challenger, Donald Trump, had trumpeted the FBI's decision to reopen the case.
Speculation was rampant that the new emails contained incriminating information against Clinton. Wikileaks, which has also been publishing in the last days a trove of emails from Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta, had revealed in one email that Podesta said that the emails should be destroyed on the day that Clinton's use of a private server became known.  That led some people to speculate that Podesta was suggesting destroying incriminating evidence. But Sunday's FBI decision contradicts that.
The FBI continues to investigate the Clinton Foundation for alleged illegal practices.
The news gives the Clinton campaign a decided edge in the race for the White House. Trump has so far not responded to Comey's letter.

Source: QNA