GOP senators: Comey drafted statement clearing Clinton before her interview

Source: Politico | August 31, 2017 | Josh Gerstein

Grassley, Graham say evidence suggests decision not to file charges was ‘prejudged’.

Former FBI Director James Comey began drafting a statement rejecting the idea of criminal charges against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over her private email account about two months or more before Clinton was interviewed in the FBI probe, according to partial transcripts of interviews released Thursday by two Republican senators.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Sen. Lindsey Graham said they obtained the transcripts from the Office of Special Counsel, a government watchdog agency that launched an investigation into whether Comey’s actions violated a federal law against government employees engaging in political activity while on duty.

In a letter sent Wednesday to Comey’s successor, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Grassley and Graham said Comey’s move to start preparing the statement sometime in April or early May reflected a premature conclusion that Clinton shouldn’t be charged.

“Conclusion first, fact-gathering second—that’s no way to run an investigation. The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy,” Grassley and Graham wrote as they demanded all FBI records of the drafts Comey prepared as well as other materials related to the OSC probe.

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    ConservativeGranny #18543

    And this is why if Trump was being honest about going after Hillary he would have fired Comey as soon as he took office. But he didn’t. Why? Because he really wasn’t interested in Hillary. He said so himself that he didn’t want to pursue the issue.

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