Hillary Clinton Assails James Comey, Calling Email Decision Deeply Troubling'

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Hillary Clinton Assails James Comey, Calling Email Decision

Deeply Troubling
By PATRICK HEALY and JONATHAN MARTINOCT. 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton and her allies sprang onto a war footing on Saturday, opening a
ferocious
attack
on
the F.B.I.s
director,
James
B.
Comey,
day
after
he disclosed that his agency was looking into a potential new batch of messages
from her private email server.
Treating Mr. Comey as a threat to her candidacy, Mrs. Clinton took aim at the law
enforcement officer who had recommended no criminal charges less than four
months earlier for her handling of classified information as secretary of state.
Its pretty strange to put something like that out with such little information right
before an election, Mrs. Clinton said at a rally in Daytona Beach, Fla. In fact, its
not just strange; its unprecedented and it is deeply troubling.
For Democrats, it was also deeply worrying. Mrs. Clintons advisers expressed
concern that the F.B.I.s renewed attention to emails relating to the nominee would
turn some voters against her, hurt party candidates in competitive House and
Senate races, and complicate efforts to win over undecided Americans in the final
days of the election. The decision to target Mr. Comey for his unusual decision to
publicly disclose the inquiry came during an 8 a.m. internal conference call, after
aides saw reports that Justice Department officials were furious, believing he had
violated longstanding guidelines advising against such actions so close to an
election.
Even before Mrs. Clinton spoke in Florida, her campaign chairman, John D. Podesta,
and campaign manager, Robby Mook, criticized Mr. Comey for putting out
incomplete information and breaking with Justice Department protocol.
By providing selective information, he has allowed partisans to distort and
exaggerate to inflict maximum political damage, Mr. Podesta said during a
conference call with reporters. Comey has not been forthcoming with the facts, he
added, describing the directors letter to Congress on Friday as long on innuendo.
Whatever shortcomings Mrs. Clinton may have as a candidate, Saturdays
coordinated effort showed that the political organization that she, her husband and
her allies had built over decades remained potent and would not let what seemed
like victory erode easily. By midday, Mr. Comey, a Republican appointed by
President Obama and confirmed nearly unanimously by the Senate, found himself in
its cross hairs. Encouraged by Mrs. Clintons senior aides to reframe the story and
make it about Mr. Comeys actions, liberal groups such as the Congressional Black
Caucus demanded that he release more information.
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Saturday, October 29, 2016
Clinton faces new FBI probe as race enters last 10 days

DES MOINES, Hillary Clinton embarks this weekend on the frenetic final 10 days of
her White House campaign, determined to shake off renewed controversy over the
FBI probe into her private emails. The 69-year-old Democrat vying to become
Americas first female president is still the frontrunner to win the November 8
election over her Republican rival Donald Trump. Clinton has a clear lead in the
polls, and voting has already begun in 34 of 50 states to choose a successor to
President Barack Obama, who will hit the campaign trail again next week in defense
of his onetime secretary of state.
But her momentum was threatened Friday by a renewed eruption in a scandal that
has long dogged her in the race: investigations into her use of a private email
server while at the State Department. Trump gleefully seized on news that FBI
agents are investigating a newly discovered group of mails sent to Clintons private
address, to see if they exposed any US secrets.
The probe had been thought finished in July, when the Federal Bureau of
Investigation had recommended that no charges be filed against Clinton, although it
found her to have been extremely careless in her use of a private server. But FBI
Director James Comeys letter to US lawmakers announcing that inquiries had been
renewed shocked the campaign and rocked world markets.
Clinton cried foul, demanding that Comey reveal more information about the probe,
and declared herself confident that voters, and the FBI, would conclude that she
had done nothing wrong. The American people deserve to get the full and
complete facts immediately, she said. We dont know the facts, which is why we
are calling on the FBI to release all the information that it has.
Clintons defiant words came after Trump himself dogged by scandal over alleged
sexual misconduct declared her unfit for office as a jubilant crowd of supporters in
New Hampshire chanted: Lock her up! Concern that the renewed probe would
damage Clintons formerly impressive momentum spooked the markets, with US
stocks, the dollar and oil prices tumbling lower on the prospect of a close vote.
Comey dropped his bombshell in a letter to lawmakers, revealing that in
connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails
that appear to be pertinent to the investigation, and would take appropriate
investigative steps. Clintons campaign was outraged and implied that Comeys
intervention could be politically-tinged because, in Clintons words, the letter was
only sent to Republican members of the House. Im confident, whatever they are,
they will not change the conclusion reached in July, she added.

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