US President Barack Obama has implicitly criticised FBI Director James Comey over the new inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s email use. He said US investigations should not operate on the basis of innuendo or incomplete information. The FBI is now investigating new emails that may be linked to its probe into Mrs Clinton’s private email server.
Mr Comey has faced a fierce backlash for announcing the move just 11 days before the Presidential election. Mr Obama’s remarks are his first public comments since Mr Comey’s announcement on Friday that the FBI had discovered a new batch of emails that may or may not be relevant to an earlier, closed investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Mrs Clinton’s handling of classified information.
Yesterday, at a rally in North Carolina, President Obama urged Democrats of all ethnic backgrounds to get out and vote for Mrs Clinton. He said her Republican opponent Donald Trump was a threat to hard-earned civil rights, the country and the world.