Former FBI Director James Comey doesn’t believe anyone in the government brought politics into the Hillary Clinton email investigation — aside from then-President Obama and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who he believes "jeopardized" the Department of Justice.
In his upcoming book, A Higher Loyalty, due out on Tuesday, Comey defends the FBI investigators who were charged with investigating Clinton’s private email server and her mishandling of classified information. The Washington Examiner obtained a copy of the book Sunday.
Comey said Obama’s public statements about the investigation “jeopardized” the investigation’s credibility in multiple interviews and seemed to absolve Clinton of any crime before FBI investigators completed their work.
“Contributing to this problem, regrettably, was President Obama. He had jeopardized the Department of Justice’s credibility in the investigation by saying in a 60 Minutes interview on Oct. 11, 2015, that Clinton’s email use was “a mistake” that had not endangered national security,” Comey writes. “Then on Fox News on April 10, 2016, he said that Clinton may have been careless but did not do anything to intentionally harm national security, suggesting that the case involved overclassification of material in the government.”
“President Obama is a very smart man who understands the law very well. To this day, I don’t know why he spoke about the case publicly and seemed to absolve her before a final determination was made. If the president had already decided the matter, an outside observer could reasonably wonder, how on earth could his Department of Justice do anything other than follow his lead.”
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7 comments:
This guy knows all the tricks: diversion, redirection, smoke and mirrors, even an occasional flash-bang.
He's going to make about anyone but him.
But we all know the truth: he was CYA-ing because he was pretty sure Lying Hillary was going to be his new boss, and anyone that knew the Clinton's knew you didn't piss them off.
If this was an episode of Criminal Minds, they wouldn't even need the whole hour to solve it.
It was the 3:00 am visit in his bedroom that cinched it.
When he saw the Clinton death list with his name and his wife, and how they died in a car accident, he decided to do what was ordered!
We all agree that Hillary's use of a private server to store and transmit classified documents was a "mistake", but it was no accident. Nor were the huge efforts on her part to destroy the evidence in who knows how many ways, obfuscate the investigation and her agents (by her order, because nobody else gave the orders) act counter to a federal subpoena.
This is the Swamp Queen, in all her glory.
Obastard and Lynch obstructed justice Lock them up.
This shows history is repeating itself again. I lot of people don't know what I am talking about so I will just say does anybody remember J Edgar Hoover and his reign at the FBI? If not their are no history buffs or anybody who cares about the past.
And she didn't intentionally mean to commit all her crimes she did so all is good
When his GPS kept plotting a route to Ft. Marcy Park he knew what course of inaction to take, and did. After conviction should be assigned to make vanity plates for the VA, DC, MD swamp crowd.
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