FBI Agents Say James Comey ‘Stood In The Way’ Of
Clinton Email Investigation
By Kerry
Picket
Global Research, November 10, 2016
Daily Caller 17 October 2016
Region: USA
FBI agents say the bureau is alarmed over
Director James Comey deciding not to suggest that the Justice Department
prosecute Hillary Clinton over her mishandling of classified information.
According to an interview transcript given to The
Daily Caller, provided by an intermediary who spoke to two federal agents with
the bureau last Friday, agents are frustrated by Comey’s leadership.
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FBI Director James Comey testifies before a House
Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the“Oversight of the State Department” in Washington U.S. July 7, 2016.
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“This
is a textbook case where a grand jury should have convened but was not. That is
appalling,” an FBI special agent who has worked public corruption and criminal
cases said of the decision. “We talk about it in the office and don’t know how
Comey can keep going.”
The agent was also surprised that the bureau did not
bother to search Clinton’s house during the investigation.
“We didn’t search their house. We always search the
house. The search should not just have been for private electronics, which
contained classified material, but even for printouts of such material,” he
said.
“There should have been a complete search of their
residence,” the agent pointed out. “That the FBI did not seize devices is
unbelievable. The FBI even seizes devices that have been set on fire.”
Another special agent for the bureau that worked
counter-terrorism and criminal cases said he is offended by Comey’s saying:
“we” and “I’ve been an investigator.”
After graduating from law school, Comey became a law
clerk to a U.S. District Judge in Manhattan and later became an associate in a
law firm in the city. After becoming a U.S. Attorney in the Southern District
of New York, Comey’s career moved through the U.S. Attorney’s Office until he
became Deputy Attorney General during the George W. Bush administration.
After Bush left office, Comey entered the private
sector and became general counsel and Senior Vice President for Lockheed
Martin, among other private sector posts. President Barack Obama appointed him
to FBI director in 2013 replacing out going-director Robert Mueller.
“Comey was never an investigator or special agent. The
special agents are trained investigators and they are insulted that Comey
included them in ‘collective we’ statements in his testimony to imply that the
SAs agreed that there was nothing there to prosecute,” the second agent said.
“All the trained investigators agree that there is a lot to prosecuted but he
stood in the way.”
He added, “The idea that [the Clinton/e-mail case]
didn’t go to a grand jury is ridiculous.”
According to Washington D.C. attorney Joe DiGenova,
more FBI agents will be talking about the problems at bureau and specifically
the handling of the Clinton case by Comey when Congress comes back into session
and decides to force them to testify by subpoena.
DiGenova told WMAL radio’s Drive at Five last week,
“People are starting to talk. They’re calling their
former friends outside the bureau asking for help. We were asked to day to
provide legal representation to people inside the bureau and agreed to do so
and to former agents who want to come forward and talk. Comey thought this was
going to go away.”
He explained, “It’s not. People inside the bureau are
furious. They are embarrassed. They feel like they are being led by a hack but
more than that that they think he’s a crook. They think he’s fundamentally dishonest.
They have no confidence in him. The bureau inside right now is a mess.”
He added, “The most important thing of all is that the
agents have decided that they are going to talk.”
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Picket, Daily Caller, 2016
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