Director sent out a new letter, internally, to FBI Employees:
The FBI doesn't have any idea what value the new evidence might offer to the Clinton investigation. It is a single lead, that is of unclear connection to the existing case. (Unclear because the entire media sphere erupted without any indication about the nature or quality of the new emails.) More importantly than the media's enthusiasm to resurrect this non-story, the FBI director's decision to notify Congress was not consistent with department policy. One DOJ official said that "we don’t comment on an ongoing investigation."
The succinct version of my position is here:
Michael Vatis, a former senior Justice Department official who is now a partner at Steptoe & Johnson, said Comey was probably trying to be transparent. But “transparency is not the foremost value in investigations. Fairness is,” he said.“His statement has, quite predictably, been blown out of proportion and twisted into a signifier of some momentous discovery, when in fact, the new emails may turn out to reveal nothing new at all,” he said. “That’s not fair to Clinton.”