Comey drafted Clinton email investigation statement months before interviewing her

[kpete]

FBI Director James Comey apparently began drafting his statement about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server months before his July 2016 announcement that the FBI would not recommend charges, according to a document posted by the FBI Monday.

The only visible content in the posted document is an unclassified email from FBI official James Rybicki, who asks officials in mid-May to "please send any comments on this statement so we may roll it into a master doc for discussion with the Director at a future date."


Rybicki's email forwarded a redacted email from the FBI chief on May 16, 2016 with the subject line "Midyear Exam." The Comey email he forwarded was dated May 2, 2016.

Newsweek first highlighted the document's release on Monday.
http://www.newsweek.com/james-comey-fbi-clinton-emails-drafted-statement-686140

Comey, however, would not publicly make his recommendation to not press charges against Clinton until July 2016. In his public statement, though, he also sharply criticized the then-Democratic presidential candidate and her colleagues for being "extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information."

The latest document will likely spark questions about why Comey waited months after beginning to draft a statement to announce the end of the investigation during a heated presidential race.


http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/355745-comey-began-drafting-clinton-statement-months-in-advance

[brush]

1. Comey, a partisan hack, had an agenda. His Oct. letter proves it. He wanted the repug to win.

He waited until July 16 for the public excoriation of Clinton disguised as a clearing of her on the email issue but still she persisted, won every debate, was up in the polls and was poised to win.

Comey then had to send out the last minute Oct. letter to accomplish his agenda.

It's all perfectly obvious in hindsight.

Let's not be fooled to feel sympathy for Comey by his later attempts to redeem himself with the trump investigation after he realized what an idiot he'd helped "win".

He screwed Clinton, the country and ultimately himself as the a-hole he swung the election to fired him.

[lunamagica]

2. Well, I hope he is satisfied with the result of his actions