Clinton Emails: We Don’t Operate On Innuendos, Obama Cautions FBI Director
President Barack Obama on Wednesday made his first comments on the FBI decision to tell Congress about the discovery of emails that could be related to investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
He said “I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations, we don’t operate on innuendo. We don’t operate on incomplete information.
“We don’t operate on leaks.’’
The FBI prompted a political firestorm on Friday when it said investigators had “learned of the existence of emails that appeared to be pertinent to the investigation” into Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state.
Mistakes
Obama stressed that earlier investigations by the FBI, Justice Department and Congress concluded that Clinton made some mistakes, but there wasn’t anything prosecutable.
Obama did not mention FBI Director James Comey by name.
However, another top Democrat responded to Comey’s move in an interview with CNN. She said that she believed Comey “made a mistake” by informing Congress about the emails.
Clinton had also questioned the FBI’s decision to announce the move just days ahead of the November 8 election.
In July, following a nearly year-long investigation, Comey said Clinton had been extremely careless in her handling of classified information. The Justice Department declined to press charges.
