With the election only 11 days away Mr Comey’s intervention was the latest twist in the email controversy, triggering yet another day of high drama in what has been a roller coaster election campaign.
Having previously decided that there were no grounds to prosecute the former First Lady, he stunned the Clinton campaign by saying that the new batch of emails were “pertinent to the investigation”.
Mrs Clinton was caught by surprise by the news, which was announced by Mr Comey in a letter to senior members of Congress. At the time she and her team were on a plane without internet access and unaware of the latest development.
It emerged that the new emails were found during an investigation into illicit text messages sent to a 15-year-old girl by Anthony Weiner, a former congressman and husband of Huma Abedin, one of Mrs Clinton’s closest aides.
Donald Trump, who has eaten into Mrs Clinton’s poll lead over the last few days, was swift to seize on the Mr Comey’s decision to resurrect his investigation.
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