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.
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.
Comey also describes a September 2015 meeting with Lynch that he previously talked about in front of a Senate committee, in which the then-attorney general asked him to describe the investigation into Clinton's emails as a "Matter."
"It occurred to me in the moment that this issue of semantics was strikingly similar to the fight the Clinton campaign had waged against The New York Times in July. Ever since then, the Clinton team had been employing a variety of euphemisms to avoid using the word 'investigation,'" Comey writes.
Comey said he never got the sense that Lynch interfered in the investigation.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/james-comey-book-president-obama-and-loretta-lynch-jeopardized-the-hillary-clinton-email-investigation
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.
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.
Comey also describes a September 2015 meeting with Lynch that he previously talked about in front of a Senate committee, in which the then-attorney general asked him to describe the investigation into Clinton's emails as a "Matter."
"It occurred to me in the moment that this issue of semantics was strikingly similar to the fight the Clinton campaign had waged against The New York Times in July. Ever since then, the Clinton team had been employing a variety of euphemisms to avoid using the word 'investigation,'" Comey writes.
Comey said he never got the sense that Lynch interfered in the investigation.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/james-comey-book-president-obama-and-loretta-lynch-jeopardized-the-hillary-clinton-email-investigation
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