DOJ OIG to review Comey letter, FBI actions in Clinton email investigation

Federal Times: The ongoing impact of FBI Director James Comey’s October letter about the Clinton investigation has developed another ripple.

The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General said on Jan. 12 that it would review “allegations regarding certain actions by the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation” centering on Comey’s Oct. 28 and Nov. 6 letters to Congress about the Clinton email investigation.

Comey famously informed Congress Oct. 28 that the FBI was reopening its investigation into whether Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton shared classified information on a private server after discovering thousands of emails between the former secretary of state and her aide, Huma Abedin, from a computer shared with Abedin’s estranged husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY.

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