Obama criticizes FBI's Comey on Clinton email probe
'When there are investigations, we don’t operate on innuendo. We don’t operate on incomplete information. We don’t operate on leaks,' the president said.
By Nolan D. McCaskill, Louis Nelson and Sarah Wheaton
11/02/16 10:58 AM EDT
Updated 11/02/16 03:30 PM EDT
President Barack Obama is questioning the wisdom of FBI Director James Comey’s vague announcement that the agency is reviewing new evidence in its probe into Hillary Clinton's email practices, saying investigations shouldn't “operate on innuendo.”
In an interview with NowThis released Wednesday morning, Obama did not call out Comey by name but vented his frustration that the FBI director dropped a bombshell 11 days before the presidential election, a move that has produced a flurry of anonymously sourced stories about how potentially damaging the new evidence might be.
“Setting aside the particulars of this case,” Obama said of Clinton, “I know that she is somebody who has always looked out for the interest of America and the American people first. And I do think that there is a norm that, you know, when there are investigations, we don’t operate on innuendo. We don’t operate on incomplete information. We don’t operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made.”
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