They have questions. He *may* have answers.
A quartet of Senate Democrats wrote a letter to FBI Director James Comey on Saturday formally requesting an expedited update on his recently announced investigation into new emails relating to
Hillary Clinton.
Stressing their concern that Comey’s investigation was already being misused for political purposes, Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), as well as the top two Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee ― Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) ― asked both Comey and Attorney General Loretta Lynch to provide “more detailed information about the investigative steps that are being taken, the number of emails involved, and what is being done to determine who many of the emails are duplicative of those already reviewed by the FBI.”
The Senators requested that they provide updated information “no later than Monday, October 31, 2016.”
“Unfortunately, Director Comey’s letter has been misunderstood,” the letter reads. “It is already being used for political purposes, creating a misleading impression regarding the FBI’s intent and actions. We strongly believe that it is incumbent on the FBI and Department of Justice to act without delay to dispel any misleading impressions about the emails that have been newly identified, as well as their importance ― or lack thereof ― to the previous investigation involving Secretary Clinton.”
Read the full letter here.
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Good for Senate Democrats! Comey deserves to be put on the hot seat.
Why are Dem Senators politicizing an FBI Investigation?
Republicans already did when they refused to except the initial investigation.
Republicans were fine with the speech Comey gave. Just needed him to clarify in Congress HOW this kind of egregious bad judgement and arrogance would be handled if it occurred in HIS dept. Which he did. And I know he was right.
What he SAID in response was -- that a person caught DOING such a thing would be handled INTERNALLY to that Dept. They would be reprimanded, FIRED, transferred, most likely LOSE their clearances and might be prevented from ever working NEAR classified info in the future. THAT'S what the lefties are missing. And it's the truth. Because to PROSECUTE these things, you risk bringing classified sources and methods into the public.. So that's HOW it's supposed to be handled ---- IF ---- it's accidental and there is no "INTENT"...
So now you have the unprecedented event of a BOSS of one these sensitive agencies committing those acts. What are the chances that HER AGENCY is gonna take those actions Comey outlined and impose them on her? Is your number guess bigger than zero?
BECAUSE she was the BOSS, it was important to CONSIDER sanctions and revocation of clearances, maybe clawback in pay and restrictions on what Govt she might hold in the future OR prosecute her. BECAUSE she was a Cabinet Member or the Head of the Dept State.
And NOW --- I personally believe -- Comey doesn't WANT to have have the FBI sitting on evidence of the "intent" he told America was not there. He's honest, a patriot and MUST SEE a pretty big national crisis looming to do what he is currently doing. That's the view from the "sidelines". The rest of the party faithful can be hypocritical about WHEN they like Comey. He's NOT lying. And he;s NOT faking it.