Comey’s Justification for Revealing the Clinton Email Investigation Makes Zero Sense

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Why would concealing Clinton probe be “death of FBI” according to Comey, but concealing probe into Trump and a hostile foreign government is not?

FBI Director James Comey said considering the political ramifications of breaking protocol and possibly getting Donald Trump elected by revealing the reopening of the investigation into Clinton’s emails could possibly have resulted in the death of the FBI. Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee, “Down that path lies the death of the FBI as an independent institution in America.”

James Comey tried to make the argument on Wednesday that concealing the re-opening of the Hillary Clinton email investigation 11 days before the November election would have been “catastrophic,” yet this doesn’t explain his decision to conceal a much more important investigation into the FBI’s investigation into the possible collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia.

When asked why he announced the re-opening of the Clinton investigation just days before the election, FBI Director James Comey told the Committee, “Concealing in my view, would be catastrophic.”

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Senator Blumenthal (D-CN) making the case that Comey’s claims make the case for the need for an independent prosecutor and saying that the Russia investigation held a profound matter of public interest as Comey claimed regarding the Clinton email investigation:

“It makes me mildly nauseous that we would have had an impact on the election,” Comey said of his decision to either “conceal or speak.”

Comey chose not to reveal the investigation started in July into the possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, which was already known to be interfering in the U.S. election.

Comey said Russia’s cyber warfare capacity presented the “greatest threat of any nation on earth” and that they were still interfering in U.S. politics.

So even in his own estimation, Comey sees Russia as a larger issue than Hillary Clinton’s emails.

And yet Comey chose to reveal a much less important investigation into how Clinton handled her email. Clinton’s email was in no way equal to the national security threat posed by the aggressive act of cyber war Russia declared on the United States by interfering in its election.

The Clinton email issue was blown wildly out of proportion by the media and Republicans, who pretended that almost every Republican running for office who had been an executive didn’t also have a private email or stolen government computer scandal, and that the inadvertent mishandling of classified information is generally not treated as a criminal matter.

Director Comey might have a legitimate reason for what he did, but in no way does his explanation today pass Go. Comey treated an email investigation that ultimately went nowhere as more important than a Russian collusion investigation.

That makes no sense.

Clearly Comey is haunted by something, and perhaps afraid that Republicans would have killed the FBI as an institution had he revealed what he knew, but if impacting the election wasn’t enough to stop him, the threat of the destruction of the FBI shouldn’t have been enough either.

There is simply no way an email investigation into something that so many Republicans who have run for office have done was of more public interest than the Republican presidential candidate possibly colluding with Russia.

Logically, Comey’s justification for his unprecedented action just days before the election doesn’t work. Comey offered only a measure of concealment along with an almost laughable excuse for his actions. He might well have good reasons, but he didn’t share them today.

Comey’s decision played a big part in costing Hillary Clinton the election, and he simply has to do better than he did today.

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