http://edwardklein.com/comey-to-trump-the-russians-didnt-influence-the-election/
Comey to Trump: The Russians Didn’t Influence the Election
BY EDWARD KLEIN/ December 14, 2016
In telephone conversations with Donald Trump, FBI Director James Comey assured the president-elect there was no credible evidence that Russia influenced the outcome of the recent U.S. presidential election by hacking the Democratic National Committee and the e-mails of John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
What’s more, Comey told Trump that James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, agreed with this FBI assessment.
The only member of the U.S. intelligence community who was ready to assert that the Russians sanctioned the hacking was John Brennan, the director of the CIA, according to sources who were briefed on Comey’s conversations with Trump.
“And Brennan takes his marching orders from President Obama,” the sources quoted Comey as saying.
In Comey’s view, the leaks to the New York Times and the Washington Post alleging that the Russians tried—and perhaps even succeeded—in tilting the election to Trump were a Democratic Party effort to delegitimize Trump’s victory.
The Comey and Clapper statements revealed that they had surveilled the Trump entourage and Trump if they agreed that there was nothing there, so why make the clumsy effort to exonerate Trump.
IMHO is was their hope that they could ward off any further inverstigation by Congress that would reveal the truth about operations like The Hammer. They knew that this would blow the roof off of Washington if it ever came out that they were using the data illegally.
But the Dems wouldn’t let it go. They thought they really were going to impeach Trump for a damn tweeet about “wiretapping”.
And you can bet when they found out that Trump wasnn’t going to let it go either, there were huge investigations and possible jailtime in their future. Note that Comey just today made an unplanned visit to the WH.