The issue focused on FBI Director James Comey's press conference before the House Select Committee on Intelligence on May 12, in which he announced that the FBI had determined that several emails in Hillary Clinton's server that were classified at the time of their transmission had been found to contain information of no classified character. When the emails were turned over to the State Department in October, the Department of Justice began an investigation into whether any of these emails contained information classified at the time they were sent or received. In November, the Justice Department