Snowden proves Trump supporters wrong; says FBI can check Clinton's 650,000 emails within minutes-to-hours

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The FBI vindicated US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, after determining a new batch of emails linked to her private email server, saying, "she has committed no criminal wrongdoing".

 

Even so, Republic nominee Donald Trump's campaign, for obvious reasons, slammed FBI, and questioned its efficiency in checking 650,000 emails in just eight days.

 

America's famous whistleblower Edward Snowden, has an answer to Trump's demur. Snowden, in response to a journalist's question replies that it would take minutes-to-hours to check all 650,000 emails. While his response is sure to leave Trump baffled, his team will also have to search for alternatives to lower the graph that projects Clinton's victory.

 

 

While addressing a crowd in Michigan, Trump said, "you can't review 650,000 new emails in eight days".

 

But Edward Snowden schooled Trump supporters through twitter.

 

When US journalist Jeff Jarvis asked the former US NSA subcontractor about the time to complete assessing 650,000 emails, he replied, "Drop non-responsive To:/CC:/BCC:, hash both sets, then subtract those that match. Old laptops could do it in minutes-to-hours"

Snowden admitted that FBI could have checked out all Hillary Clinton's emails swiftly by dropping the irrelevant incoming email that Clinton never responded to and check the remaining emails.