FBI’s Comey Defends Pre-Election Clinton Email Decision

In reference to the October 28 letter, Comey said that “when the Anthony Weiner thing landed on me”, he had a choice between speaking up or engaging in “catastrophic concealment”. She should then be asked why 53 percent of white women voted against her.

Persistent questions from senators, and Comey’s testimony, made clear that the FBI director’s decisions of last summer and fall involving both the Trump and Clinton campaigns continue to roil national politics and produce lingering second-guessing about whether the investigations were handled evenly.

Recall that former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that one of the main factors of its defeat Donald Trump in the election were Russian Federation and the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will soon launch a political organisation aimed at funding “resistance” groups that will stand up to President Donald Trump, the media reported. But there was nothing found that changed the FBI’s decision not to recommend charges.

FBI agents had seized the computer of former congressman Anthony Weiner, Abedin’s separated husband, as part of separate investigation into a possible sexting scandal involving a minor. Last year, they ran a story reporting that voters who were undecided in the last two weeks of the election, were not swayed by Comey’s letter.

Sending the letter to Congress about the Clinton probe less than two weeks before the elections was “one of the world’s most painful experiences”, Comey told US lawmakers, saying he was facing a hard choice between “really bad or catastrophic” actions and he couldn’t hide. He said he had to make a choice between “speak or conceal”: to speak would have been “really bad”, he said; to hide would have been “catastrophic”.

“I take absolute personal responsibility – I was the candidate, I was the person who was on the ballot”, Ms Clinton said at a “Women for Women” event in NY. “Well, let me tell you, when Russian Federation hacks into our election systems, there’s exceptional interest in that too”.

He said that “somehow” Clinton’s emails “were being forwarded to Anthony Weiner, including classified information, by her assistant Huma Abedin”.

She was also the victim of misogyny and the press didn’t treat her fairly. At the panels hearing, Comey got grilled about the investigations into alleged Russian meddling in the election and into Clintons use of a private email server at the State Department.

“My goal was to say what is true”. What did we do, what did we find, what do we think? “Not going to comment on anyone in particular”, Comey told the senator. He said the bureau “didn’t say a word” about the Russia-Trump probe “until months into it”, and that he expects “we’re not gonna say another peep about it until we’re done”.

He explained what led to a reopening investigation after determining in July that Clinton committed no criminal wrongdoing.

Comey said he and his top staff debated whether to go public, mindful of long-standing Justice Department policies that seek to avoid actions that could sway elections. He said the FBI’s responses have had several “material inconsistencies”.

He also took time to blast WikiLeaks, which USA officials say abetted Russia’s campaign interference operation by publishing stolen documents from the Democratic National Committee which embarrassed Clinton.