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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/09/us/politics/document-White-House-Fires-James-Comey.html
It criticizes Mr. Comey for overstepping his role.
The Director was wrong to usurp the Attorney Generals authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution. It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement. At most, the Director should have said the F.B.I. had completed its investigation and presented its findings to federal prosecutors.
It criticizes Mr. Comeys disclosures about Mrs. Clintons conduct.
Compounding the error, the Director ignored another longstanding principle: we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation. The Director laid out his version of the facts for the news media as if it were a closing argument, but without a trial. It is a textbook example of what federal prosecutors and agents are taught not to do.
It portrays Mr. Comeys late-October letter as a mistake.
Concerning his letter to the Congress on October 28, 2016, the Director cast his decision as a choice between whether he would speak about the decision to investigate the newly-discovered email messages or conceal it. Conceal is a loaded term that misstates the issue. When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.
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Reading the Deputy AG Memo - Trump Fired Comey for Being Unfair to Hillary? (Original Post)
TomCADem
May 2017
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underthematrix
(5,811 posts)1. Item #1 is not factually correct
AG Lynch recused herself from participating in the disposition of the HRC email server investigation after wingnuts went crazy after Bill Clinton took upon himself to board the AG's plane and chit chat with her.
AG Lynch said she would accept the FBI's recommendation on disposition.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)2. "Trump Fired Comey for Being Unfair to Hillary?" No way in hell lol