Comey Defends Decision Not to Indict Hillary

First is a memo FBI Director James B. Comey sent to his staff explaining that the decision not to recommend charging Ms. Clinton was “not a cliff-hanger” and that people “chest-beating” and second-guessing the FBI do not know what they are talking about.

Hillary Clinton has been badly damaged by reports over her private email use at the State Department.

Because it is generating a lot of interest, I thought I should update you on where we are with our commitment to transparency in the wake of the Clinton email investigation.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s email scandal has been treated with more importance than it requires, according to The Washington Post’s editorial board.

Chaffetz and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., for example, earlier asked the USA attorney in D.C. whether Clinton committed perjury when she testified before a congressional committee about her use of a private email server.

Finally, Clinton admitted to investigators that she had used 13 separate Blackberry phones over the course of her tenure as Secretary of State.

The Clinton campaign and Judicial Watch both claimed victory Wednesday in competing assessments of the email release.

They bought Huma Abedin’s story that she didn’t know about the server until it became public, despite the fact that Abedin had a private email address on the server, or that she recommended contacts for the server to be set up in 2008.

“I can’t believe that they would do what is such a patently political move”, he complained. “It makes them look like political operators versus law enforcement officers”. “We maintain all security precautions were in place, and continued to be so, throughout our service to said client”.

Comey explained that the tougher decision was whether to offer “unprecedented transparency about our thinking”, which he said he struggled with.

“But what is factual, is the State department system was hacked”, Clinton said.

Later Wednesday, the top Democrat on the House Oversight committee released an email exchange between Clinton and former Secretary of State Colin Powell in which the Republican appointee advised her on the use of personal email.

Mr. Comey’s concessions start with his decision not to interview Mrs. Clinton until the end of his investigation, a mere three days before he announced his conclusions.

The house speaker has been a vocal critic of FBI Director Comey’s recommendation not to press charges against Clinton back in July, saying that the FBI’s chief’s announcement “raises more questions than provides answers”.