White House Press Secretary Calls FBI Probe Into Hillary Clinton's Classified Emails A 'Criminal Investigation'

Daily Mail: White House calls FBI probe into Clinton's classified emails a 'criminal investigation' – to glee of Republicans – on the same day Obama endorses her

* Within an hour of Barack Obama's endorsement of Hillary Clinton, his spokesman acknowledged that she faces a 'criminal investigation'
* The misstep sent Republicans cackling to reporters
* Clinton faces the possibility of prosecution for housing classified documents on a private email server
* She used the homebrew setup for all her emails – including sensitive government matters – when she was secretary of state
* White House press secretary Josh Earnest insisted that the endorsement wouldn't be interpreted inside the FBI as a signal to let her off the hook

Barack Obama's spokesman described the FBI's probe into Hillary Clinton's classified email scandal as a 'criminal investigation' on Thursday, less than an hour after the president endorsed his embattled former secretary of state to succeed him.

Josh Earnest told reporters during a White House press briefing that Obama was committed to keeping his hands off the investigation, trusting career investigators and prosecutors to follow evidence wherever it leads.

'That's what their responsibility is,' Earnest said. 'And that's why the president, when discussing this issue in each stage, has reiterated his commitment to this principle that any criminal investigation should be conducted independent of any sort of political interference.'

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WNU Editor: Poor choice of words from the White House Press Secretary. In regards to Hillary Clinton use of a private email server, the following WSJ report (if true) is only going to add to the legal problems that she will have on how she treated sensitive and top secret documents .... Emails in Clinton Probe Dealt With Planned Drone Strikes (WSJ). And talking about coincidences, right after the Wall Street Journal published this report, President Obama met privately with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in the Oval Office.

Update: Emails at center of Clinton FBI probe focused on drone strikes, report says (FOX News).