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Jul 5, 2016 · I’m here to give you an update on the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary of State. After a tremendous amount of work...
2 days ago · Hear his response. The Lead. Link Copied! Former FBI director James Comey responds after former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called him out over the FBI's investigation into emails on ...
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- Clemente Duran-Ballen
- James Comey Was Insubordinate …
- … But There’S No Evidence of Comey bias.
- There’S No Evidence That Broader FBI Bias Affected The Investigation …
- No Criminal Referrals Outlined …
- … But Disciplinary Referrals For Five People
- Unresolved: The Weiner Laptop Delay
The report concluded that Comey was insubordinate to his superiors when he went outside the department’s chain of command and broke with FBI norms to announce his initial findings, and then later, to announce he was reopening the Clinton investigation without notifying higher-ranking officials.
Comey based his decisions on what he believed was the FBI’s institutional interests, the report concluded.
The inspector general “did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative actions we reviewed.”
The report does not outline any criminal referrals, though the inspector general’s office is not required to make any such referrals public.
The report refers five current or former FBI employees for potential disciplinary action under the bureau’s internal guidelines for conduct, based on their politically-weighted texts and emails while working on the Clinton investigation. The report named two of the five employees as Strzok and Page, and referred to the three other unnamed employees...
The inspector general found that political bias may have been in play, but could not be proven, in the FBI’s delayed decision to look into the emails discovered on Weiner’s laptop in September 2016. The bureau’s New York field office executed a search warrant for the laptop on Sept. 26, 2016, and was aware of the discovery of thousands of emails by...
- Lisa Desjardins
Jun 14, 2018 · The Justice Department's inspector general released a 500-page report Tuesday that details for the first time how the FBI and then-director James Comey handled the investigation into former...
- Erica R. Hendry
Sep 2, 2016 · WASHINGTON — The FBI on Friday took the unusual step of releasing to the public documents related to its yearlong investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while...
Sep 2, 2016 · By Reena Flores. September 2, 2016 / 1:54 PM EDT / CBS News. The FBI made public Friday afternoon dozens of pages of its investigation into whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
Oct 1, 2015 · WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey confirmed Thursday the FBI is looking into the security of the setup of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email and that the agency has the appropriate “resources and personnel assigned to the matter.”
