Republican Questioning of FBI’s Comey Turns Into Embarrassing Disaster for the GOP
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Let me run through a few of the “lowlights” for Republicans.
1. When Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) asked if the classified emails that Clinton received were properly marked, Comey said they were not. He stated that they should have had headers and banners indicating they were classified. He even went on to say that it would be a “reasonable inference” to assume that, with the absence of these banners and headers, Clinton could have easily assumed the email was not classified.
This means that while some were marked classified (which is a contradiction to what Clinton has been saying this whole time), none of the ones found on her server were properly marked and he believes it was “reasonable” for Clinton to then assume that those emails were not, in fact, classified.
2. When Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) asked if Clinton lied to the FBI, Comey said, “We have no basis to conclude she lied to the FBI.”
In other words, what she told the FBI lined up with the rest of their extensive investigation.
3. When Chaffetz asked, “Did Hillary Clinton break the law,” in reference to her setting up this private email server, Comey said that based on his experience as a lawyer and in law enforcement that it was his “judgment that she did not.”
Yes, that’s the Director of the FBI saying that Hillary Clinton did not break the law when she used the server. This is huge considering the whole basis for most of the GOP’s propaganda about this situation is their belief that she should be indicted because she broke the law — even though the Director of the FBI just told Congress that she didn’t.
Read more at: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/republican-questioning-of-comey-turns-into-embarrassing-disaster-for-party/
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