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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsComey knew Russian Clinton-Lynch documents were fake but acted on them anyway: report
During the 2016 presidential election, former FBI Director James Comey acted on Russian intelligence that he knew to be false, sources tell CNN.
CNN reports that Comey knew that Russian documents that made shocking allegations about former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch were false but that he treated them as though they were real because he feared them leaking out.
The documents, which were intercepted from Russian communications, alleged that Lynch had given Hillary Clinton secret assurances that she would not let the FBI investigate her private email server too deeply.
Comey feared that if these documents leaked, they would throw the FBIs entire investigation into doubt, despite the fact that he knew they were filled with false information.
Sources close to Comey tell CNN he felt that it didnt matter if the information was accurate, because his big fear was that if the Russians released the information publicly, there would be no way for law enforcement and intelligence officials to discredit it without burning intelligence sources and methods, CNN reports. In at least one classified session, Comey cited that intelligence as the primary reason he took the unusual step of publicly announcing the end of the Clinton email probe.
When Comey announced the conclusion of the email server probe, he scolded Clinton for exhibiting extreme carelessness for setting up her own private email server while working at the State Department, but said he nonetheless would not charge her with any crime.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/comey-knew-russian-clinton-lynch-documents-were-fake-but-acted-on-them-anyway-report/
There is no excuse to justify what Comey did to Hillary,, and that effectively propelled trump into the WH.
MattP
(3,304 posts)Although i may believe it i still think with Bannon flying back right before these stories about Comey came out make me wonder
emulatorloo
(44,274 posts)It is not all black and white.
- Told them Clinton did not "lie to the FBI" when they tried to get him to say that.
- Told them Clinton did not break the law when they tried to get him to say that she did.
I watched that testimony and he pushed back hard on their nonsense.
Comey's a mixed bag as far as I'm concerned.
I think he found himself between a rock and a hard place a number of times, and this was one of them. I think it was a pretty safe bet to think Putin's puppet Assange would have leaked this in order to discredit the FBI's clearing of Clinton.
That would have fed directly into the wingnuts "deep state" bullshit and the Fox News loving "progressives" who infested DU during primary 2016.
On Edit: Matt's got a good point as well. Bannon etc have a vested interest in muddying the waters right now. They already tried to lie and say Trump fired Comey because he was mean to Hillary.