| | | Comey lied to Horowitz in the Clinton investigation, and Horowitz let him off the hook.
Comey claimed nobody briefed him about Hillary's emails being discovered on Weiner's laptop. The evidence shows Comey received a very unusual late night briefing from McCabe hours after the story broke at FBI HQ. Horowitz never pressed him on this.
So, it's no surprise that in his latest investigation Horowitz allowed Comey to avoid questioning by claiming he had no security clearance.
The FBI’s New York office alerted FBI headquarters about the emails in late September 2016 — more than two months after Comey’s press conference in which he unilaterally cleared Clinton. Records show Strzok was briefed by then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe right after McCabe had been briefed on the shocking find by the head of the New York office on Sept. 28, 2016, during both a video teleconference and follow-up phone calls. “Everyone realized the significance of this,” recalled one conference participant.
That afternoon, records show, McCabe met privately with Comey in the director’s office. McCabe and Comey also exchanged calls later than evening, according to phone records.
Yet Comey denied being briefed that day about the additional Clinton emails found on the Weiner laptop. McCabe swore to Horowitz’s investigators that he could not recall what they discussed in their flurry of phone calls that night, and neither he nor Comey could remember meeting at all that day.
Comey said he might have heard something in passing about the newfound Clinton emails a couple of weeks later, in October; but even then, he swore it didn’t “index” with him because he didn’t know Abedin was closely connected to Clinton – even though she vice-chaired Clinton’s campaign, served as her deputy chief of staff at the State Department and had worked for her since 1996
.In short, Comey maintained he wasn’t briefed on the significant case development at the same time that virtually all his lieutenants were told about it in detail. “I’m mystified,” he told Horowitz’s office, over why he, as director, was allegedly left in the dark.
“The notion that I knew something important was on that laptop and did what — concealed or hid it or something? — is crazy,” he insisted
Horowitz accepted Comey’s account, never confronting him with call records showing that on the night of Sept. 28, he and McCabe had a nearly two-minute conversation starting at 7:34 p.m., followed by a nearly 10-minute talk beginning at 8:36 p.m. that was initiated by Comey. Horowitz never pinned down Comey on which urgent matter he and his deputy discussed late that night, just hours after McCabe had found out about the discovery of hundreds of thousands of emails in a high-profile case Comey had personally — and very publicly — closed. Tom |
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