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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Then FBI Director Comey began drafting Clinton statement months in advance

2017-10-17

[The Hill] Comey began drafting Clinton statement months in advance 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.

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."

Posted by:Besoeker

#6 "I'll take "Time Machine Screw-up" for 1,000-dollars, Alex."

Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2017-10-17 22:08

#5 Mueller, who has been put in charge of the Special Counsel Russian collusion ~~witch hunt~~ investigation was FBI Director when the Uranium One-Rosatom deal was inked by the State Department. Has anyone seen a bigger cluster f&ck? Wait a minute, there is the Iran nuke deal.

Posted by: JohnQC 2017-10-17 16:09

#4 Man, Comey is such a clown. A clown of epic proportions.

His agents laughed at him at first, then were embarrassed by him. Other than the few sycophants that surrounded his palace he had zero respect.

He kicked that whole "fidelity, bravery and integrity" core value thing into the stands.

Posted by: Tennessee 2017-10-17 10:38

But, but, but the 4+ year old investigation of the Canadian mining company Uranium One and the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom was still on-going. We simply couldn't conflate the two investigations.

The Rosatom matter took priority. It was destined to go nowhere, which was precisely why it took priority.

[sarc off]

Posted by: Besoeker 2017-10-17 09:10

#2 f-i-x

Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-10-17 08:41

#1 Why is this POS not under indictment for obstruction ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2017-10-17 01:30

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