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Here is John Podesta's statement just released to the press.
Podesta is Hillary's campaign chair:
"Upon completing this investigation more than three months ago, FBI Director Comey declared no reasonable prosecutor would move forward with a case like this and added that it was not even a close call. In the months since, Donald Trump and his Republican allies have been baselessly second-guessing the FBI and, in both public and private, browbeating the career officials there to revisit their conclusion in a desperate attempt to harm Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
"FBI Director Comey should immediately provide the American public more information than is contained in the letter he sent to eight Republican committee chairmen. Already, we have seen characterizations that the FBI is 'reopening' an investigation but Comey's words do not match that characterization. Director Comey's letter refers to emails that have come to light in an unrelated case, but we have no idea what those emails are and the Director himself notes they may not even be significant.
"It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election.
"The Director owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what he is now examining. We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July."
"FBI Director Comey should immediately provide the American public more information than is contained in the letter he sent to eight Republican committee chairmen. Already, we have seen characterizations that the FBI is 'reopening' an investigation but Comey's words do not match that characterization. Director Comey's letter refers to emails that have come to light in an unrelated case, but we have no idea what those emails are and the Director himself notes they may not even be significant.
"It is extraordinary that we would see something like this just 11 days out from a presidential election.
"The Director owes it to the American people to immediately provide the full details of what he is now examining. We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July."
Link: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/clinton-camp-fbi-should-say-more-about-new-emails-related-to-private-server-case
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It only indicates that HRC's own campaign is clueless about what's going on, and, in so doing, serves only to deflate information (Only three e-mails? Not from Clinton?) that might go counter to the emerging media narrative. If all you can do is demand information (that you're unlikely to get), you're not defending the campaign, you're throwing up your hands and failing to do so.
Where's James Carville when we really need him? He'd have had a "rapid response team" out there in front of the story. By failing to do so, Podesta is only giving the impression that there must be something to the Republican spin after all.
