November 02, 2016, 11:20 am
Obama weighs in on FBI: 'We don't operate on innuendo'
By Jordan Fabian
President Obama on Wednesday appeared to criticize the way FBI Director James Comey disclosed a new review of information possibly linked to Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
In his first public comments on the decision, Obama told NowThis News he did not want to interfere with the investigation. But he said it’s important that the public’s judgment not be colored by incomplete information.
“I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations, we don’t operate on innuendo,” Obama said in the interview published Wednesday. “We don’t operate on incomplete information. We don’t operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made.”
The president noted that Comey himself decided not to recommend criminal charges against Clinton for mishandling classified information on her private email server while secretary of State.
“When this was investigated thoroughly the last time, the conclusion ... was that, you know, she made some mistakes but that there wasn’t anything there that was, you know, prosecutable,” Obama said.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/303957-obama-on-fbi-we-don-t-operate-on-innuendo
