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Nine days ago in a Friday afternoon news dump, FBI Director James Comey announced a renewed probe of email messages that were possibly relevant to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. After a week of enormous speculation, Comey now recommends to Congress that no criminal charges be brought.

This qualifies as the second time that the FBI has come to this conclusion with the first being in August. At that point, Comey publicly called Clinton out as “extremely careless” in handling “highly classified information” but found no criminal intent. This time, agents at the bureau “have been working around the clock to process and review” the emails, which apparently added up to 650,000 emails found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. Here’s the (hopefully) final conclusion:

“During that process, we have reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State. Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton.”

Here’s a copy of the letter, courtesy of CNN’s James Acosta.

(Via Washington Post)