It is great when they turn on each other. I had seen Comey threw Lynch under the bus had not seen that he also tossed Obozo.
James Comey book: President Obama and Loretta Lynch ‘jeopardized’ the Hillary Clinton email investigation
Comey said Obama’s public statements about the investigation “jeopardized” the investigation’s credibility in multiple interviews and seemed to absolve Clinton of any crime before FBI investigators completed their work.
“Contributing to this problem, regrettably, was President Obama. He had jeopardized the Department of Justice’s credibility in the investigation by saying in a 60 Minutes interview on Oct. 11, 2015, that Clinton’s email use was “a mistake” that had not endangered national security,” Comey writes. “Then on Fox News on April 10, 2016, he said that Clinton may have been careless but did not do anything to intentionally harm national security, suggesting that the case involved overclassification of material in the government.”
“President Obama is a very smart man who understands the law very well. To this day, I don’t know why he spoke about the case publicly and seemed to absolve her before a final determination was made. If the president had already decided the matter, an outside observer could reasonably wonder, how on earth could his Department of Justice do anything other than follow his lead.”
“The truth was that the president — as far as I knew, anyway — he had only as much information as anyone following it in the media. He had not been briefed on our work at all. And if he was following the media, he knew nothing, because there had been no leaks at all up until that point. But, his comments still set all of us up for corrosive attacks if the case were completed with no charges brought.”
Comey also describes a September 2015 meeting with Lynch that he previously talked about in front of a Senate committee, in which the then-attorney general asked him to describe the investigation into Clinton’s emails as a “matter.”
The fix was in from the get go. All that had to be determined was who was going to make the public announcement, if any.
Clinton assigned Comey to the task. He's a smoother talker. Lynch was told to stand down, and to stand down all of DOJ, that Comey was going to handle all the publicity. No promise needed to be offered, no quid pro quo. An simple order from the godfather would get the job done.
Setting aside reasonable speculation of what happened behind the scenes, the Hillary e-mail problem is still self-evident. It could not happen that the nominee would be charged, and it had to happen that the public be addressed on the subject. It had to happen because the status quo players demanded it, not because the system did.
Comey's book is just trying to sell the same old claptrap that flies with about a third of the public.
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