Hillary Clinton’s campaign blasted FBI Director James Comey’s Friday announcement about emails that he said were “pertinent” to his agency’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server on Saturday as “long on innuendo and short on facts.”
Speaking to reporters during a press call, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta called Comey’s decision to tell lawmakers an “extraordinary step.”
“The more information that comes out, the more overblown this all seems and the more concern it creates about Director Comey’s actions,” Podesta said.
He criticized Comey’s decision to provide “selective information” in the announcement, which “allowed partisans to distort and exaggerate in order to inflict maximum political damage.”
Podesta described Comey’s letter as “long on innuendo and short on facts.”
“It’s now up to him, who owes the public answers to the questions that are now on the table, and we’re calling on him to come forward and give those answers to the American public,” Podesta said.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said that Comey’s announcement had created “an urgency” so close to Election Day.
“He owes the public the full story, or else he shouldn’t have cracked open this door in the first place,” Mook said.
Keep it up, guys. Comey needs to be pressed hard on all this.
Yes, indeed, like yesterday…
He sees the writing on the wall, that Hillary is going to win. He’s making one last play for good standing with the right wingers he hopes to be employed by once he resigns, which will be imminently. He hopes it will influence down ballot elections. He’s a deep skunk.
This is a marker to Republicans: President-elect Clinton will not be President-elect Obama. No “post-partisan” pattycake. You bring this shit into town, we’ll bring a tire iron.
We need Huma to come forward and explain what she was doing with all those emails on her home computer. I’m certainly prepared to believe there’'s a good explanation that she would have been happy to give the FBI, if they had bothered to call her.
I assume that Huma Is being extensively debriefed by her lawyers right now, and perhaps they are waiting for Comey to stonewall for a couple days before bringing her out or issuing a statement. I understand the desire to keep the spotlight now on Comey’s behavior, and I fully understand the defense lawyer strategy of your client not saying anything until court. But this is different. Either the campaign gets its story out or the worst will be assumed by enough voters to potentially swing the election to Trump.