Kaine: FBI handling of new Clinton emails ‘troubling’

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said Friday that he is troubled by the way the FBI has handled the discovery of new emails related to Hillary Clinton’s private server investigation and called for more information to be released. 

{mosads}”When you do this 11 days before a presidential election and you don’t provide many details, but details are apparently being given by the FBI to the press, this is very, very troubling, and we hope that the director— and we really think that he should give a clearer accounting of exactly whats going on right now,” Kaine said in an interview with Vice News.

Earlier Friday, FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to lawmakers saying that during the course of a separate investigation, the bureau uncovered emails that may be pertinent to the Clinton investigation. He said the FBI would take “investigative steps” to evaluate the messages. 

FBI officials have anonymously told news outlets that the emails were discovered as the bureau investigated the sexting scandal of Anthony Weiner, a former congressman and husband to top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. 

In a press conference Friday evening, her first time speaking about the issue, Clinton demanded the “full and complete facts” of the situation and said the reports about Weiner are just “rumors” without more information.