FBI director James Comey says a recent review of newly discovered emails has not changed the agency’s conclusion that no charges were warranted in the case of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
In a letter to the US Congress, Mr Comey said the agency had completed its review of the new emails and “we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton”.
“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,” Mr Comey said in the letter.
“During that process, we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state.”
The Clinton campaign said in a statement it was “glad the matter is resolved”.
A letter sent by Mr Comey to Congress more than a week ago informing it of the newly discovered emails had thrown Mrs Clinton’s presidential race against her Republican rival Donald Trump into turmoil, in the final stretch before Tuesday’s election.
Mr Trump responded to Mr Comey’s latest letter by saying Mrs Clinton was protected by a “rigged system”.
Mrs Clinton still holds a small lead over Mr Trump in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal national poll.
Mrs Clinton currently leads Mr Trump by four points — but in mid-October she led in the same poll by 11 points, suggesting Republicans, who were previously hesitant to support Mr Trump, are finally embracing their candidate.
Her national average lead, according to the polling website Real Clear Politics, is 1.8 points.
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