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Mr Comey has come under fire from Democrats over the move

The Clinton campaign has blasted FBI

Director James Comey for "blatant
double standards" over the new inquiry
into Hillary Clinton's email use.

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The comments came after US media

reports that Mr Comey had urged against
publically accusing Russia of interfering in
the US election, including alleged email
hacking.
Mr Comey's concern about releasing the
information was due to the proximity to the
election, reports say.

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The FBI declined to comment to the BBC.

The statement that Mr Comey reportedly declined to sign off on was
released by the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of
the Director of National Intelligence on 7 October.
"The US intelligence community is confident that the Russian
Government directed the recent compromises of emails from US
persons and institutions, including from US political organisations...
these thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US
election process," it said.
Mr Comey agreed with the statement but was against making it
public before the election, according to US media.
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There have been allegations that Russian hackers have targeted the
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Trump.
"It is impossible to view this as anything less than a blatant double
standard," Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said. He also
called on Mr Comey to "immediately explain this incongruence and
apply the same standard to Donald Trump's associates as he has
applied to Hillary Clinton's."
Mr Comey has faced a fierce backlash for announcing on Friday, just
11 days before the presidential election, that the FBI is investigating
new emails that may be linked to its probe into Mrs Clinton's private
email server.

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Mr Trump continued campaigning on Monday - he said Hillary had "nobody to blame but
herself for her mounting legal troubles"

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Mrs Clinton said "voters deserve to get full and complete facts"

It emerged in March 2015 that Mrs Clinton had been breaking

federal rules by operating a private email server while she was
secretary of state from 2009-13.
Her lawyers combed through the server and provided the State
Department with 30,000 work-related emails, but her campaign
deleted another 33,000 messages, saying they were personal in
nature.

Mr Comey concluded in July that Mrs Clinton had been "extremely

careless" in handling classified information, but there were no
grounds for any charges.
But on Friday, he told Congress he had learned of fresh emails
which might be "pertinent" to its previous inquiry and renewed the
FBI probe.
The latest emails were found in a separate investigation into
allegations that former congressman Anthony Weiner sent illicit text
messages to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. Mr Weiner is
married to top Clinton aide, Huma Abedin.
The FBI has reportedly obtained a warrant to search the cache of
emails belonging to Ms Abedin, which are believed to have been
found on her estranged husband's laptop.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump give their reactions to the FBI's actions

There are reportedly 650,000 emails to search through on the

laptop, but it is unclear who sent or received the emails or what they
were about.
On Monday, Mr Trump said the FBI was going to find a "motherlode"
of missing emails and he hoped the Democratic candidate's 33,000
deleted messages could now be recovered.
Mrs Clinton later told a rally she had nothing to hide.

Mr Comey and Attorney General Loretta Lynch have said they are
working quickly to sift through the newly discovered emails.
Earlier, a spokesman for President Barack Obama said the president
did not suspect Mr Comey of trying to secretly influence the election
through his announcement on Friday of the inquiry and the White
House would neither defend nor criticise the FBI decision.
Josh Earnest said Mr Comey was "a man of integrity, a man of
character, a man of principle and he has a very difficult job".
Democrats have angrily demanded that the embattled Mr Comey
rapidly make public what the agency knows about the new email
trove.
On Sunday, Democratic leader in the US Senate Harry Reid
accused Mr Comey of violating an act which bars officials from
influencing an election by revealing the bureau was investigating
emails possibly linked to Mrs Clinton.

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