{With little more than a week to the US presidential election, the Democratic candidate is again under fire over emails.}<\/p>\n
The FBI has obtained a warrant to begin reviewing a new batch of emails potentially tied to US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, law enforcement officials tell US media.<\/p>\n
It remains unclear, however, whether investigators can finish their work before Election Day, The New York Times reported. “The process has begun,” the paper quoted a federal law enforcement official as saying on Sunday.<\/p>\n
James Comey, the director of the FBI, set off a political firestorm on Friday by announcing in a letter to Congress that the agency would investigate emails discovered in a separate probe to see if they contain classified information.<\/p>\n
The emails, belonging to Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, came to light during an investigation of disgraced former New York congressman Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Abedin.<\/p>\n
Weiner is under investigation for allegedly sending lewd messages to an underaged girl. The FBI found the emails on computers that it seized in that investigation, according to news reports.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Sunday, it was reported that FBI investigators knew for weeks about the existence of newly discovered emails potentially related to the investigation of Clinton’s private email server – raising questions as to why Comey waited until 11 days before the elections to make his annoucement.<\/p>\n
“With just a little more than a week until Election Day, it’s unclear if this new Clinton email development will sway any undecided voters,” Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett reported from Washington.<\/p>\n
“Still, it’s a concern for Clinton’s campaign, given polls show Clinton and her rival now in a tight race in some key battleground states.”<\/p>\n
The FBI had announced in July that its investigation into the Democratic presidential candidate\u2019s email practices had concluded with a recommendation of no criminal charges in the matter.<\/p>\n
Clinton’s rival, Republican Donald Trump, thanked Weiner for his role in the FBI’s discovery of new emails.<\/p>\n
“We never thought we were going to say thank you to Anthony Weiner,” he told a rally in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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