Hillary Clinton: Comey Was ‘Under Pressure’ From Rudy Giuliani To Re-Open Email Probe [VIDEO]

dailycaller.com ^ | 9/26/17 | Chuck Ross

[ColdOne]

Hillary Clinton has a new theory for why former FBI Director James Comey re-opened an investigation into her emails just before the presidential election.

“He was under pressure from Rudy Giuliani, others, both former and current FBI officials,” Clinton said in an interview with Charlie Rose on Monday.

Since losing the election to Trump, Clinton has railed against Comey over his Oct. 28 decision to re-open the email probe. The decision was made after FBI agents discovered some of Clinton’s emails on a computer shared by her aide, Huma Abedin, and her husband, Anthony Weiner.

Weiner was under investigation at the time for sending sexually explicit messages to an underage girl.

In her interview with Rose, Clinton said she had “doubts about how serious” Comey thought the new emails were.

[Gene Eric]

Sweet.

Retire Sessions.

Bring on Rudy.

[piasa]

OCTOBER 28, 2016 : (JUST AFTER JAMES COMEY SENDS LETTER TO CONGRESS ANNOUNCING THE REOPENING OF THE CLINTON EMAIL INVESTIGATION, FBI ATTNY #2 CLINESMITH ENGAGES IN INSTANT MESSAGE EXCHANGES WITH 4 OTHER FBI EMPLOYEES -— ) The first exchange highlighted by Horowitz occurred on Oct. 28, 2016, just after FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to Congress announcing the reopening of the Clinton email investigation. Clinesmith messaged a total of four FBI employees expressing his frustration, telling two of them, “I mean, I never really liked the Republic anyway.”
“As I have initiated the destruction of the republic ... Would you be so kind as to have a coffee with me this afternoon?” Clinesmith asked a third FBI employee.
And Clinesmith told a fourth FBI employee, “I’m clinging to small pockets of happiness in the dark time of the Republic’s destruction.”
In his attempt to explain these texts to Horowitz in 2018, Clinesmith said he was expressing his annoyance with what he saw as the FBI treating the Clinton email investigation more harshly than the Trump-Russia investigation. He continued to say he didn’t let it impact his work.
“It’s like, in terms of, of, you know, what’s not in here too is like, you know, we, at that point we had investigation, the Russia investigation was ongoing as well. And that information was obviously kept close hold and was not released until March,” Clinesmith said. “So, you know, it, it was just kind of frustration that we weren’t handling both of them the same way with, with that level I guess.” —— -—— Mueller lawyer with anti-Trump bias is ex-FBI official facing FISA criminal investigation, Washington Examiner, November 22, 2019 by Daniel Chaitin & Jerry Dunleavy