FBI report blames glitch for Clinton Foundation tweet days before 2016 election

A “system failure” was responsible for an unusual tweet posted by an FBI Twitter account just days before the 2016 presidential election, according to an internal FBI report.

The report blamed a technical glitch for a Nov. 1, 2016 tweet sharing FBI records on the William J. Clinton Foundation. 

That tweet linked to more than 100 pages of redacted documents, mainly regarding the investigation into former President Clinton’s decision to pardon wealthy financier Marc Rich on his last day in office.

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The FBI report said that the account, @FBIRecordsVault, which had been dormant for a year, came back into use as the agency sought to fix other accounts.

The report determined that the records were “properly posted.”

The tweet came days after former FBI Director James Comey ignited controversy by announcing that the bureau was reopening its investigation into then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of State.

That announcement drew accusations that the FBI had tried to interfere in a presidential race. Clinton and several of her allies have pointed to Comey’s announcement as a reason for her electoral loss to President Trump. 

The investigation was reopened because of emails found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the husband of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who later pleaded guilty to sending obscene material to a teenage girl.