Mr. Nadler. I am going ask a question now with a preface as a follow-up to some of the questions that Representative Jackson Lee asked. In July of 2005, after announcing that charges would not be brought against Hillary Clinton, former Director Comey gave his personal opinion as to the lack of appropriateness of some of her conduct. He was criticized for that by various people, including me.
In October, 10 days or so before the election he announced publicly that they were reopening the investigation a couple days--2days before the election, he announced that they found nothing. He was greatly criticized for that, and some people attribute part of the result of the election to that action, and that was a violation or seems to be a violation of the normal protocols that you don't say something shortly before an election that might affect it.
In September of 2016, in this room, the former Director appeared before the Judiciary Committee, and I asked him I said based on various press reports that there might be an investigation of the Trump campaign and possible relations with Russian efforts to involve themselves in the campaign. Is there an investigation ongoing of the Trump campaign, and he said it would be inappropriate to comment one way or the other. He didn't answer the question, except by saying that. And I couldn't criticize that response.
Peter Strzok, a former FBI agent who has been criticized by some of the minority members--excuse me, majority members of this committee, for various actions thathe took, mainly emails to another FBI agent, people have said that he acted with bias in the investigation, both the Hillary investigation and the beginning of the Russia investigation, and he responded, among other things, by saying that if he had wantedto negatively affect the Trump campaign, he was one of the few people in the summer of 2016 who knew that there was an FBI investigation going on of the Trump campaign, and he could easily have leaked that information, and that would have had a deleterious effect on the Trump campaign, but it wouldn't enter his mind to do so, that it would have been wrong.
My question is, in light of all this, do you agree that, the FBI aside--did not show any bias against the Trump campaign and, in fact, was Mr.Strzok's comment that had information been leaked by him or anybody else about the ongoing FBI investigation, would that have negatively affected the campaign then going on?
Ms. Lynch. So with respect to that, I can tell you that I never saw any indicia of bias impacting the work of the FBI as it related to what has been called the Russia investigation, as it may have touched on people affiliated with the campaign. I also never saw any bias in their work as it touched on the email investigation either. As Isaid before, people come in to this world and to the Department with views and backgrounds and opinions. They check them at the door, and I think--
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