Why e-mails and not a statement about Russia meddling in our elections? Comey’s answer, he was against releasing it before the election. Comey must resign.
FBI Director James Comey argued privately that it was too close to Election Day for the United States government to name Russia as meddling in the U.S. election and ultimately ensured that the FBI's name was not on the document that the U.S. government put out, a former FBI official tells CNBC.
The official said some government insiders are perplexed as to why Comey would have election timing concerns with the Russian disclosure but not with the Huma Abedin email discovery disclosure he made Friday.
According to the former official, Comey agreed with the conclusion the intelligence community came to: "A foreign power was trying to undermine the election. He believed it to be true, but was against putting it out before the election." Comey's position, this official said, was "if it is said, it shouldn't come from the FBI, which as you'll recall it did not."
And let us not forget Harry Reid’s letter to James Comey, that points out that Comey has explosive information about Russia’s ties to the Trump campaign.
PDF link to Reid's letter to Comey: assets.documentcloud.org/...
xBREAKING NEWS Senator Reid confirms: FBI has "explosive information about close ties and coordination" between Trump campaign & Russian gov pic.twitter.com/zyzJtgvJiq
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