It’s great when they turn on each other.
It is great when they turn on each other. I had seen Comey threw Lynch under the bus had not seen that he also tossed Obozo.
James Comey book: President Obama and Loretta Lynch ‘jeopardized’ the Hillary Clinton email investigation
Comey said Obamas public statements about the investigation jeopardized the investigations credibility in multiple interviews and seemed to absolve Clinton of any crime before FBI investigators completed their work.
Contributing to this problem, regrettably, was President Obama. He had jeopardized the Department of Justices credibility in the investigation by saying in a 60 Minutes interview on Oct. 11, 2015, that Clintons email use was a mistake that had not endangered national security, Comey writes. Then on Fox News on April 10, 2016, he said that Clinton may have been careless but did not do anything to intentionally harm national security, suggesting that the case involved overclassification of material in the government.
President Obama is a very smart man who understands the law very well. To this day, I dont know why he spoke about the case publicly and seemed to absolve her before a final determination was made. If the president had already decided the matter, an outside observer could reasonably wonder, how on earth could his Department of Justice do anything other than follow his lead.
The truth was that the president as far as I knew, anyway he had only as much information as anyone following it in the media. He had not been briefed on our work at all. And if he was following the media, he knew nothing, because there had been no leaks at all up until that point. But, his comments still set all of us up for corrosive attacks if the case were completed with no charges brought.
Comey also describes a September 2015 meeting with Lynch that he previously talked about in front of a Senate committee, in which the then-attorney general asked him to describe the investigation into Clintons emails as a matter.