FBI Director James Comey strongly defended his decision to inform Congress in late October that he had reopened an FBI investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of State. "It was a hard choice, and I still believe in retrospect it was the right choice," he said. Comey sent a letter to Congress on Oct. 28 saying the FBI had recovered thousands of emails in an unrelated probe and was reopening its investigation into whether Clinton may have mishandled classified information. "If the election had been on Oct. 27, I would be your president," Clinton said in a TV interview Tuesday. Comey said he didn't publicly disclose the FBI investigation into the Clinton emails until it was closed last summer.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 03, 2017 15:51 UTC