The FBI is investigating key advisers in Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign in a series of probes that will effectively look into everyone in her inner circle, the Daily Mail reported Wednesday. According to the report, the FBI currently has five open investigations into Clinton: the email scandal, the Anthony Weiner investigation, the Clinton Foundation probe, a review of WikiLeaks revelations about Clinton campaign chief John Podesta, and a review of Terry McAuliffe's campaign donations. The email scandal is perhaps the best known, and focuses on the fact that while serving as secretary of state from 2009-2013, Clinton set up a private email server and a private email network for herself, her advisers and her family. By doing so, she allegedly compromised the federal government and Congress' access to the material. Her actions were also allegedly in violation of her ethics agreement as secretary of state. According to the FBI, through the private email server, Clinton allowed national defense information to be "lost, stolen, abstracted or destroyed," actions constituting "gross negligence" and potentially violating the Espionage Act of 1913. The Weiner investigation focuses on no fewer than 650,000 vital government emails found on the computer of disgraced former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, whose estranged wife is one of Clinton's closest advisers. Weiner resigned after becoming embroiled in three sex scandals, including one involving sexually explicit texts and photos sent to a 15-year-old girl. The FBI found the trove of State Department emails on his computer after seizing the device over Weiner's contact with the teen. The Clinton Foundation probe focuses on whether the foundation committed financial crimes in its handling of foreign donations. The foundation's ties with Qatar and Saudi Arabia have already embarrassed the Clinton campaign, given the nonexistent women's rights and questionable human rights records of those countries. The FBI is also reviewing hacked emails to and from John Podesta, Clinton's campaign chief, included in the latest WikiLeaks revelations. Some of the emails reportedly include language suggesting a conspiracy to destroy evidence in multiple federal criminal investigations related to the email scandal. Podesta's brother Tony, and the brothers' Podesta Group lobbying firm, are involved in an FBI corruption investigation related to deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, the Daily Mail said. Finally, the FBI is looking into campaign donations by Clinton friend Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, who himself is under an FBI investigation over potential campaign fund-raising violations. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama has made an urgent plea to the African-American community to vote for Clinton, warning that if Republican Donald Trump is elected, he would reverse beneficial Obama administration policies. Obama's appeal comes as early voting patterns indicate that enthusiasm for Clinton among black voters is lagging dangerously, which could all but eradicate one of the Clinton campaign's principal strategies and jeopardize her chances of winning in key swing states like Florida and North Carolina. "I'm going to be honest with you right now, because we track, we've got early voting, we've got all kinds of metrics to see what's going on, and right now, the Latino vote is up. Overall vote is up. But the African-American vote right now is not as solid as it needs to be," Obama said. "I need everybody to understand that everything we've done is dependent on me being able to pass the baton to somebody who believes in the same things I believe in." Still, despite the blow the FBI's decision to re-examine the email scandal has dealt the Clinton campaign, a Wednesday Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll gave Clinton a 6% lead on Trump -- the same advantage she held before the FBI's announcement. Other national polls have shown Clinton's lead shrinking over the past week. RealClearPolitics, which averages most major opinion polls, showed Clinton's lead had narrowed to 1.7% on Wednesday, down from 4.6% last Friday.
