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Dubious Russian Intel Doc Spurred Comey To Speak On Clinton Emails Probe
The Washington Post reported that many people within the U.S. intelligence community believed the document either contained bad intelligence or was fake.
Former FBI Director James Comey
told Congress in early May that he felt “mildly nauseous” at the idea that he may have influenced the outcome of the U.S. election by speaking publicly about Hillary Clinton’s “carelessness” in using a private e-mail server as secretary of state.
The Washington Post on Wednesday
shed more light on why he chose to make that announcement, which broke FBI protocol not to comment on closed cases where no charges are brought. Before
Comey’s July announcement, the FBI obtained a Russian intelligence document of dubious origin and veracity that claimed to cite communications between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Clinton’s campaign, in which Lynch assured a campaign staffer that the Justice Department would not closely investigate the email server.
The document did not include the email in question and merely described its contents. The Post reported that many people within the U.S. intelligence community believed the document either contained bad intelligence or was fake. FBI officials, who said the source who provided the document had offered up un-corroborated information in the past,
called the document “junk” and “unreliable and based on multiple layers of hearsay.”
The agency tried to verify the document by searching for the compromising email in question and could not find it, according to the report. Then when the FBI interviewed Lynch to determine the validity of the document’s claims, she said she had never communicated with the Clinton staffer in question.
Still, the Post reported that the document had a major impact on Comey, who believed he needed to speak publicly about the Clinton email server case in order to get out ahead of accusations of coziness and special favors. Without giving Lynch a heads up, and in the heat of the general election, he publicly criticized Clinton’s handling of classified material over email, a decision
some have argued helped Donald Trump clinch the presidency.
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This is unconscionable! This clearly cost Hillary the election! Comey acted on a fake Russian document.