FBI Director Defends Timing Of Clinton Email Probe Document Dump

RESTRICTION: NO New York or New Jersey Newspapers or newspapers within a 75 mile radius of New York CityFBI Director James Comey testifies before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform f... RESTRICTION: NO New York or New Jersey Newspapers or newspapers within a 75 mile radius of New York CityFBI Director James Comey testifies before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform following his announcement on Tuesday that he would recommend not to prosecute former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for maintaining a private server on Capitol Hill FBI Director Comey Testifies on Clinton E-Mail Server Investigation, Washington, D.C, USA - 07 Jul 2016 (Rex Features via AP Images) MORE LESS
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In an internal memo sent Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey defended the timing of document releases from the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as well as his decision not to recommend charges against Clinton.

“We have leaned very far forward in providing transparency,” Comey wrote in the memo obtained by CNN, explaining that he considered waiting to release documents from the investigation until after Labor Day weekend in order to avoid backlash but ultimately decided against it.

“My judgment was that we had promised transparency and it would be game-playing to withhold it from the public just to avoid folks saying stuff about us,” he wrote. “So we released it Friday.”

He elaborated on his decision not to recommend charges against Clinton, saying that it was not a difficult decision: “At the end of the day, the case itself was not a cliff-hanger; despite all the chest-beating by people no longer in government, there really wasn’t a prosecutable case.”

Comey also took the opportunity to hit back against allegations that the investigation was influenced by outside forces, saying that “those suggesting that we are ‘political’ or part of some ‘fix’ either don’t know us, or they are full of baloney (and maybe some of both).”

Read the full memo below via CNN:

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  1. oh FFS. No one cares about the nothingburger emails except mouth breathing MSM stenographers.
    Did anyone find anything?
    Crickets

  2. The Director made this mess with the press conference.

  3. Nope, nothing political about it at all.

    Nothing to see here…

  4. You’re exactly right. He got up there and give his opinion that surely someone had to hack her server.

  5. And I’m sure this quote will be the lead story / headline on CBS, NBC, ABC, FUX, NPR, NYT, WAPO, etc.

    "At the end of the day, the case itself was not a cliff-hanger; despite all the chest-beating by people no longer in government, there really wasn’t a prosecutable case."

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