Washington — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has unexpectedly released documents concerning ex-president Bill Clinton’s pardon of the husband of a wealthy Democratic donor, in a surprise move just days before the election in which his wife is seeking to become America’s first female president. The release of the heavily redacted 129-page report over the pardon of trader Marc Rich — an investigation that closed in 2005 without charges — triggered questions from Democrats already angered by the FBI’s probe into hundreds of thousands of newly uncovered e-mails possibly linked to Hillary Clinton. While the Rich documents were published online on Monday, they received little notice until they were posted on Tuesday on a Twitter account for the FBI’s division managing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests that had had no posts since a year ago, except for a small handful released simultaneously on Sunday. "Absent a FOIA litigation deadline, this is odd," said Hillary Clinto...
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