FBI reopens case against Clinton on Trump's lawyer request

Case pertains to a meeting held between Clinton and former AG Loretta Lynch

Federal Investigation Bureau (FBI) has reopened a case against former US president Bill Clinton after Donald Trump’s lawyer requested the same from the agency.

The case pertains to a meeting held between Clinton and former attorney general Loretta Lynch that Trump alleged was to influence an investigation taking place about his rival’s use of a private email server.



The request to the FBI to reopen the case was made by American Centre for Law and Justice (ACLJ) and push for the documents relating to the mentioned meeting. Jay Sekulow, one of the members from Trump’s legal team, is the chief counsel at ACLJ.

“While we appreciate that the FBI has ‘reopened’ the case file and is now ‘searching’ for documents responsive to our duly submitted FOIA request from more than a year ago, it stretches the bounds of credulity to suggest that the FBI bureaucracy just discovered that ‘potentially responsive’ records ‘may exist’ on its own accord,” Sekulow has said.

The article originally appeared on The Independent