Email probe: FBI to recommend no charges on Clinton

WASHINGTON: FBI will recommend the US Justice Department that no charges be filed over Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers, agency Director James Comey said on Tuesday, lifting a cloud of uncertainty over her White House campaign.

The FBI found evidence of “extremely careless” handling of emails by Clinton and that at least 110 emails contained classified information when they were sent, said Comey, announcing the result of a yearlong investigation.

But, he said, the FBI concluded “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring charges against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. “Although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case,” Comey told reporters in Washington.

The US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, said on Friday that she would accept the recommendations of career prosecutors and the FBI director.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 6^th, 2016.