Justice officials warned FBI that Comey’s decision to update Congress was not consistent...
Source: The Washington Post
Justice officials warned FBI that Comey’s decision to update Congress was not consistent with department policy
By Sari Horwitz October 29 at 12:05 PM
Senior Justice Department officials warned the FBI that Director James B. Comey’s decision to notify Congress about renewing the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server was not consistent with long-standing practices of the department, according to officials familiar with the discussions.
Comey told Justice Department officials that he intended to inform lawmakers of newly discovered emails. These officials told him the department’s position “that we don’t comment on an ongoing investigation. And we don’t take steps that will be viewed as influencing an election,” said one Justice Department official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the high-level conversations.
“Director Comey understood our position. He heard it from Justice leadership,” the official said. “It was conveyed to the FBI, and Comey made an independent decision to alert the Hill. He is operating independently of the Justice Department. And he knows it.”
Comey decided to inform Congress that he would look again into Hillary Clinton’s handling of emails during her time as secretary of state for two main reasons: a sense of obligation to lawmakers and a concern that word of the new email discovery would leak to the media and raise questions of a coverup.
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Maybe if they really were made to suffer for their decisions... I want to see Comey guy totally ripped by the media. I want to see him totally discredited! I want him arrested for trying to influence an election. I want perp walks!
Oh well, I guess I'll have to settle for everyone saying it's all Hillary's fault.
