A lot of alleged freepers assured us Comey was “a straight shooter”.
As I understand it, it isn’t Comey’s responsibility nor authority to determine if charges are to be filed. That is up to prosecutors and the attorney general. He had no legal standing to make such determination. His duty was to develop evidence and present that to the prosecuting attorneys. Period, end of discussion. However I think the Attorney General, Lynch and Bill Clinton hatched a plan to make Comey the fall guy. Their “spontaneous” airport meeting was fake as Bruce Jenner’s breasts. By admitting they should not have met, they took her out of the equation as far as making a decision regarding charging Hillary. Then Janet Lynch basically recused herself and placed the authority onto Comey, although she has no stautory authority to abdicate her responsibility.
This should have been handled by a special prosecutor or at the least a grand jury, but they could not have controlled the outcome with certainty then.
Like all things Clintonian, this was a sham from the get-go!
Even straight shooters want to live. He probably said as much as he could without crossing the line into dirt nap territory.