Clinton aide blasts FBI director over ‘wildfire of innuendo’

“At this point, innuendo should not be a substitute for fact. If you’re going to introduce something into the campaign conversation with 11 days to go until the general election, you owe it to provide full information to the voters,” Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said on CNN’s “The Situation Room.”

 

{mosads}”Director Comey is just unleashing a wildfire of innuendo, of anonymously sourced reports, of Republicans mischaracterizing what the letter says,” Fallon continued. “It’s incumbent on Director Comey, stand up, hold another press conference, answer questions, provide more information.”

 

The FBI director announced in a brief letter to lawmakers on Friday that new emails had been discovered during a separate investigation that appeared to relate to the FBI’s probe of Clinton’s private email server.

 

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and other Republicans seized on the letter as evidence that the FBI was reopening its investigation into Clinton’s handling of classified material.

 

Trump has long blasted the FBI’s decision, reached in July, to not recommend charges against Clinton over her handling of classified material while serving as secretary of State.

 

But Clinton’s campaign and a number of Republicans called on Comey to provide more information about the additional emails given he announced the review of new emails within two weeks of the election.

 

The new emails were discovered during a separate, unrelated investigation into former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), The New York Times reported later Friday. Weiner is the estranged husband of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

 

“If these are emails that belong to an aide, as opposed to Hillary Clinton, the voters should know that,” Fallon said on CNN.

 

“If these were emails that were not taken from her server equipment, which was the subject of the investigation that was concluded several months ago, the voters should know that,” he added.