Law & order

FBI drops more bombs on Clinton campaign, releases 15yo pardon docs

Days after the groundbreaking news that the FBI would be reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email servers, they have followed up with a release of a trove of documents regarding Bill Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich in 2001.

The FBI released 129 pages of documents Monday that relate to former President Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich over 15 years ago. Rich’s marriage to a Democratic donor launched an FBI investigation into the pardon, but it was closed without charges in 2005.

The FBI announced the release on its FBI Records Vault on Tuesday morning. The vault is where all Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests are released, but the timing is still questionable to many bipartisan lawmakers, such as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who wrote a letter to FBI Director James Comey, questioning the need to notify Congress about the newly discovered emails.