The public is well aware of Comey’s announcement on July 5, 2016 shutting down the investigation, even while he soundly criticized Clinton for her use of a private email server to handle sensitive and classified government information. The next day, Attorney Lynch accepted Comey’s recommendation and closed the investigation.
Then, on October 28, @016, came the bizarre Comey reversal, in which he said the investigation was reopened because new emails had come to light that warranted further probing.
What the public was unaware of is that Comey had decided to ultimately exonerate Mrs. Clinton even before the FBI had interviewed 17 key witnesses in the case.
That revelation came to light in the Grassley/Graham letter on Wednesday. That conclusion was based on the review of transcripts from interviews with James Rybicki, Comey’s chief of staff, and Trisha Anderson, principal deputy general counsel of national security and cyberlaw, by the Office of Special Counsel provided to the committee after a special request. Here is an excerpt from the committee letter:
According to the unredacted portions of the transcripts, it appears that in April or early May of 2016, Mr. Comey had already decided he would issue a statement exonerating Secretary Clinton. That was long before FBI agents finished their work. Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft statement to select members of senior FBI leadership. The outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged while FBI agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts.”
Grassley and Graham further noted to Wray:
Conclusion first, fact-gathering second—that’s no way to run an investigation. The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy.”
As the controversy rolls on, the FBI’s reputation continues to take additional hits, making the agency look like the Keystone Kops and a government entity that’s become thoroughly politicized.
Director Wray certainly has his work cut out for him to rebuild the FBI’s image, regain public trust, and improve morale among dispirited agents who honestly try to uphold their pledged duties.
The agency began conducting the 17 key interviews on May 3, 2016, and concluded them on July 2 with the interview of Hillary Clinton. Included in the investigation were employees of Platte River Network, which handled the email server for Mrs. Clinton, her staff at the State Department and her presidential campaign, as well as unnamed personnel at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Why would CIA employees be involved in this investigation? Another good question the mainstream media will ignore while they try to sweep this current revelation of Comey’s bias under the rug.
Naturally, President Donald Trump took to Twitter at 7:56 a.m. this morning to comment on the news of the pre-investigation exoneration:
Wow, looks like James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton long before the investigation was over…and so much more. A rigged system!”
Comey began work on his exoneration statement prior to the agreement on immunity deals for key Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson in June 2016 to review emails on their laptops.
The immunity agreements kept the FBI from looking at emails after Secretary Clinton left the State Department, which would have been the time period in which emails would have been deleted, laptops cleaned and hard drives destroyed. So any evidence of destruction or concealment of federal records would have been covered up and out of bounds.
In the committee’s letter to Wray, Grassley and Graham requested all drafts Comey may have written and circulated to upper-level staff regarding the Clinton probe, as well as memoranda and analyses that may have circulated among FBI personnel regarding the legal justification for exoneration.
Now Director Wray has the ball in his court to demonstrate if he’s committed to cleaning up the mess, or if he will become just another Swamp Dweller.
Source: ZeroHedge
and liberals are now on Comeys side. What dumb shits.
And O’Bastard exonerated Killary.
Bad day for the swamp rats
That is a stupid statement anyone knows that if you aren’t charged with anything you can’t be exonerated of doing it. All it is to the Democrats is a little bump like the 7 billion that disappeared in her Department of Defense while she was there. Was she exonerated from that too? Time is here lock that Witch up. When is the FBI going to investigate the Clinton Foundation over their treatment to Haiti?