On July 5, 2016, FBI Director James Comey publicly explained why he did not think Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump's Democratic opponent in that year's presidential election, should be prosecuted for her "extremely careless" handling of "very sensitive, highly classified information" as secretary of state during the Obama administration. But four months later, just 11 days before the election, Comey informed Congress that the FBI had reopened its investigation of Clinton in light of recently discovered emails between her and her personal assistant. Although the new evidence did not change the FBI's assessment of Clinton's conduct, Comey did not report that outcome to Congress until November 6, two days before the election.

Comey took a lot of flak from Democrats, who thought he had recklessl

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