BOMBSHELL FBI Chief Jim Comey Clears Hillary Clinton—and Puts Himself in the Crosshairs
BOMBSHELL
FBI Chief Jim Comey Clears Hillary Clinton—and Puts Himself in the Crosshairs
Shane Harris and Andrew Desiderio 11.06.16 2:50 PM ET
Nine days after crushing Hillary's momentum, the FBI director declares that she’s no crook. But the drama is, in many ways, only getting started.
The FBI just said—again—that it won’t be criminally charging Hillary Clinton for spilling secrets. But the probes into Clinton’s activities are far from over. And now, the Bureau and its leadership could be the ones coming under investigators’ scrutiny.
FBI Director James Comey pronounced on Sunday that investigators have found nothing in emails to and from Hillary Clinton recently recovered on Anthony Weiner’s laptop that alters the FBI’s decision not to recommend criminal charges against the Democratic nominee.
“Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton,” Comey wrote in a letter to the heads of four congressional committees. The FBI chief had previously said that while Clinton and her aides were “extremely careless” to use a private server for official business when she ran the State Department, “no reasonable prosecutor” would have pursued a criminal case against them for mishandling classified information.
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FBI Chief Jim Comey Clears Hillary Clinton—and Puts Himself in the Crosshairs
Shane Harris and Andrew Desiderio 11.06.16 2:50 PM ET
Nine days after crushing Hillary's momentum, the FBI director declares that she’s no crook. But the drama is, in many ways, only getting started.
The FBI just said—again—that it won’t be criminally charging Hillary Clinton for spilling secrets. But the probes into Clinton’s activities are far from over. And now, the Bureau and its leadership could be the ones coming under investigators’ scrutiny.
FBI Director James Comey pronounced on Sunday that investigators have found nothing in emails to and from Hillary Clinton recently recovered on Anthony Weiner’s laptop that alters the FBI’s decision not to recommend criminal charges against the Democratic nominee.
“Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton,” Comey wrote in a letter to the heads of four congressional committees. The FBI chief had previously said that while Clinton and her aides were “extremely careless” to use a private server for official business when she ran the State Department, “no reasonable prosecutor” would have pursued a criminal case against them for mishandling classified information.
READ MORE: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016...
Comey’s announcement suggested that the FBI will not continue to pursue Clinton over her controversial email system, which came as welcome news to her campaign less than two days before Americans head to the polls.
Over a nine day period some damage was done but not enough for a Trump victory, I predict.