Without mentioning Comey by name, he said the agency should not “operate on innuendo”.
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at Maritime Park’s Hunter Amphitheater November 2, 2016 in Pensacola, Florida.
In July, Comey said Clinton had been “extremely careless” in dealing with the classified material, but that no criminal charges were warranted. “And you know, I wouldn’t be supporting her if I didn’t have absolute confidence in her integrity and her interest in making sure that young people have a better future”. The principle of judicial independence dictates that the president shouldn’t risk the perception of influencing investigations by commenting about whether they are appropriate or how they are conducted.
“I think he found himself in a hard position, faced with the choice of having people continue to believe that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had completed its inquiry and there were no further emails to review, or correcting that with all the obvious risks that it would be at a time that is sensitive”, Richman said.
On Thursday, Clinton campaign Director of Communications Jennifer Palmieri confirmed Abedin would be at the fundraiser.
Comey’s October 28 letter, Obama conceded, may be politically damaging to Clinton. Dana Milbank does this when essentially asking why FBI Director James Comey didn’t go public with Donald Trump’s relationship with the Russians.
Adding that Trump was “wrong about the women and the men of this country”, Clinton pitched that a vote in next week’s election was a sign of strength against the Republican’s behavior. “Why would you release information that is so incomplete when you haven’t even seen the material yourself?”
In the last days of a freaky U.S. election season, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is playing an unprecedented starring role.
An email exchange between Hillary Clinton and her close aide Huma Abedin shows the secretary of state trusted Anthony Weiner to deliver secure phones.
It is, of course, true that Clinton has not yet been found guilty of any crime.
“If the attorney general determined that she could not participate in the process, the deputy attorney general, Sally Yates, a respected, apolitical, career prosecutor, should have stood in her place, ” Holder wrote earlier this week in a column for the Washington Post.
“Florida, which has the largest cache of electoral votes, is a virtual tie and North Carolina is nearly as close”, he said.
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But Baier had already walked back his statement about the likelihood of an indictment, saying he had been “inartful” in his characterization.
