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The FBI on Friday
said it was investigating more emails in what the Democratic
presidential candidate described as "deeply troubling" behavior
10 days before the U.S. elections.
"I haven't been notified of anything, no, I haven't been
requested of anything, no, I'm not aware of the department being
requested, and I have no further comment to make," Kerry told a
news conference in Ireland.
"As an American citizen and former nominee of the party, there
is a lot I'd like to say about what is going on, but I can't and
I am just going to remain out of this," he added.
Clinton on Saturday challenged FBI Director James Comey to
provide a fuller explanation of investigative steps he is taking
related to her use of a private email server.
Comey had decided in July that the FBI was not going to seek
prosecution of Clinton. But on Friday he said the agency was
trying to determine whether additional emails contained
classified information.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has been
reeling for weeks from the release of a 2005 audio tape in which
he boasted about groping women, has seized on the FBI move as
evidence Clinton is unfit to lead the country.
Kerry was in Ireland to accept the Tipperary International Peace
Award, joining recipients like former South African President
Nelson Mandela, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and
former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Kerry is due to travel to London on Monday for talks on Libya
that will seek to break a political stalemate over the country's
U.N-backed unity government.
(Writing by Lesley Wroughton and Conor Humphries, editing by
Larry King)
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