McCabe: 'We Were Overconfident' in Clinton Probe

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By Sandy Fitzgerald    |   Wednesday, 20 February 2019 10:16 AM




Former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe admitted Wednesday that he and fired FBI Director James Comey had been "overconfident" in Comey's ability to communicate the details behind the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.

However, he denied to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the eventual decisions on the announcements had been made because of the belief Clinton would win the 2016 presidential election.

"I spent a long time thinking about the decisions Jim and I and the team went through, going all the way back to the Clinton email case, all the way to the investigation of Russia," McCabe said, while discussing his new book about the decisions that were made concerning the investigations into President Donald Trump.

Comey held a press briefing in July 2016 to announce the Department of Justice would not recommend charges against Clinton.

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[WarmPotato]

McCabe is a tool

[thackney]

I think Comey did a great job communicating Hillary's role in the private email server:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rep-trey-gowdy-rips-fbi-171835327.html

...Gowdy: OK. Well, I'm looking for a shorter answer so you and I are not here quite as long. Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her e-mails sent or received. Was that true?

Comey: That's not true. There were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents.

Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said "I did not e-mail any classified information to anyone on my e-mail there was no classified material." That is true?

Comey: There was classified information emailed.

Gowdy: Secretary Clinton used one device, was that true?

Comey: She used multiple devices during the four years of her term as Secretary of State.

Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said all work related emails were returned to the State Department. Was that true?

Comey: No. We found work related email, thousands, that were not returned.

Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said neither she or anyone else deleted work related emails from her personal account.

Comey: That's a harder one to answer. We found traces of work related emails in — on devices or in space. Whether they were deleted or when a server was changed out something happened to them, there's no doubt that the work related emails that were removed electronically from the email system.

Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said her lawyers read every one of the emails and were overly inclusive. Did her lawyers read the email content individually?

Comey: No....