A friend of former FBI Director James Comey’s has come to his defense after President Donald Trump accused him of clearing Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing while the investigation was still underway.
A friend of former FBI Director James Comey’s has come to his defense after President Donald Trump accused him of clearing Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing while the investigation was still underway.
Wow, looks like James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton long before the investigation was over…and so much more. A rigged system!
Two Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, wrote a letter to the FBI claiming that Comey wrote a draft of « a statement exonerating » Clinton in the investigation of her private email server.
Comey’s friend Benjamin Wittes, editor of the blog Lawfare, responded to Trump on Friday in a string of tweets.
A few thoughts in response to the latest slime-job by the President against Comey. I will keep this very brief. /1/ https: //t.co/hvdDHitYHd
The people who think Comey was out to save Hillary really should have a cage match with those who think he was out to defeat her. /2/
There is nothing surprising about this news that Comey began drafting what became the declination statement early. /3/
By May, after 9 months of investigation, unless HRC lied to the FBI or it found something new, this was headed for a declination. /4/
Comey was committed to transparency; the hardest part was explaining that they did a credible investigation that resulted in no charges. /5/
So I would not be at all surprised if he began exploring how much transparency was possible under the law and what it would look like. /6/
This may come as a shock to Grassley and Graham and Trump, but judges sometimes do a memo/draft about an opinion before oral argument. /7/
Smart people think ahead and prepare. That appears to be an alien notion to our current President, but that’s likely what happened here. /8/
