FBI sticks to earlier view not to charge Clinton over email server

FBI Director James Comey said new emails that had been found had not changed the agency’s July decision not to recommend charges against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server.

In a letter Sunday to lawmakers, Comey wrote that based on the FBI’s review of the emails, the agency had not changed the conclusion it had expressed in July with regard to Clinton’s use of a personal email server when she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

The letter from Comey comes ahead of U.S. presidential elections on Tuesday and will likely blunt criticism that Clinton used the email server for confidential government communications.

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