By Aaron Miller

F.B.I. director, James  Comey told Congress on Sunday that the recently discovered trove of emails has not changed his conclusion that Hillary Clinton should face no charges over the email investigation.

The announcement, coming two days before election day, went far enough to clear the cloud of suspicion over Clinton’s campaign  caused by the announcement last month- just 11 days before the elections- that the F.B.I would revisit their first investigation of Hilary Clinton’s emails.

“Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusion that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton,” Mr. Comey wrote in a letter to the leaders of congress. Mr.Comey said agents had reviewed all communications to and from Mrs. Clinton in the new trove when she was secretary of state.

 Mr. Comey was widely criticized for announcing that the F.B.I had discovered new emails that might be relevant to its original investigation of Mrs. Clinton, concluded last July no charges. The announcement does not mean the investigation into the emails is over, but it makes it clear that there no criminal offenses have been found in them so far.

Many of the emails over which James Toney has cleared Clinton, were personal messages or duplicates of others previously viewed by the bureau had previously examined during the original inquiry. A spokesman for Mrs. Clinton said in a post on Twitter that the campaign had always believed that she would be cleared of any wrongdoing.

“We were always confident nothing would cause the July decision to be revisited,” Mr. Fallon said. “Now Director Comey has confirmed it.”

The email investigations were sparked by the discovery of a cache of emails in early October in an unrelated investigation into the disgraced former congressman Anthony D. Weiner, Mr Weiner is the estranged husband of one of Mrs. Clinton’s closest aides. The investigation of Mr. Weiner’s laptop for evidence of whether he had exchanged illicit messages with a teenage girl.

Now that James Comey has cleared Clinton over that email investigation, Clinton can proceed with the final two days of her campaign with a very clear head.  However, any damage Comey’s announcement  has caused may be irreversible if some affected parties voted with a mind prejudiced by Mr.Comey’s announcement.

 The announcement renewed the prospect that the laptop might have new information that may reopen the F.B.I.inquiry. However, there were suggestions Comey broke the law by making the announcement so close to election day; raising the possibility he attempted to interfere with the elections.

This allegation may have been untrue if Comey had a legitimate reason to make the announcement. There were deep rifts within the FBI over Comey’s announcement, and it was also revealed that the FBI had been deeply divided over the original handling of the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email.