By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The six-month investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server appears to be as strong as ever, The Hill reports.
The timing isn’t good for the Democratic frontrunner, who former FBI officials said could be charged later this year as the general election campaign heats up.
“I don’t know that there’s any magical cutoff date,” said Ron Hosko, the FBI’s former assistant director of the criminal investigative division and a 30-year veteran of the bureau.
It puts Democrats in an awkward position.
“It does give pause to Democrats who are concerned that there may be another shoe to drop down the road,” said Andrew Smith, a political science professor at the University of New Hampshire.
FBI Director James Comey in December pledged that the investigation would be “honest” and “independent.”
“We don’t give a rip about politics,” he told a Senate committee.
