Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid accused FBI Director James B. Comey on Sunday of misusing his authority to influence the presidential election by telling Congress that investigators were examining additional emails that could be related to Hillary Clinton's private server.
Comey's notification to Congress on Friday risked "tarring Secretary Clinton with thin innuendo," a possible violation of the Hatch Act, which prevents use of government resources for political purposes, Reid wrote in a letter to Comey.
Reid included another potentially explosive allegation in his letter, saying Comey had refused to release information about ties among Donald Trump, his campaign and the Russian government.
Reid did not detail what that information might be. But Democrats have repeatedly raised concerns about Trump's sympathetic tone toward Russia, an issue that has only grown with the release of internal Clinton campaign emails that U.S. authorities suspect were obtained by Russian hackers.
"The clear double standard established by your actions strongly suggests that your highly selective approach to publicizing information, along with your timing, was intended for the success or failure of a partisan candidate or political group," Reid wrote.
