After the hearing, Sen.
"With respect to the Russian Federation investigation, we treated it like we did with the Clinton investigation", Comey said.
"The more information we have the better, from a law enforcement perspective", Comey replied.
James Comey on Wednesday defended his decision to announce a new investigation into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's emails while staying quiet on the Trump-Russia one prior to the 2016 US elections.
Mr Weiner's laptop was seized as part of a sexting investigation involving a teenage girl. "Let me tell you, he was the least popular presidential candidate to win in the history of polling".
Comey did tell Grassley he had never been an anonymous source of quotes in the media on the investigation of the Clinton and Trump campaigns and that he had never authorized anyone in the FBI to do so. "That was our burden, and we were unable to meet it", he said.
"We treated it like we did the Clinton investigation", Comey maintained.
"If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president", Clinton said in a TV interview Tuesday. Come said, despite it being "the toughest decision in the world" he had no regrets, calling it a choice to either speaking out or hide.
Earlier in the hearing, Comey said it made him "mildly nauseous" to think his disclosure could have altered the course of the election. "But honestly, it wouldn't change the decision", he said. "Perhaps Trump just ran a great campaign?"
"I want that inspection".
Conspiracy being hatched by BJP through Mishra, AAP alleges
Mr Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has rejected the allegation, with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia calling it a "joke". Soon after the move, Mishra had claimed he would "expose" the involvement of certain AAP leaders in an alleged scam on Sunday.
'Did I hear about it? Dianne Feinstein, senior Democrat on the committee. And I think we tolerate sexism in this country, whether it's in, you know, the legal profession or corporations or in our politics. Mike Conaway of Texas, Tom Rooney of Florida and Trey Gowdy of SC.
Comey said he and his top staff debated whether to go public, mindful of long-standing Justice Department policies that seek to avoid actions that could sway elections.
FBI Director James Comey told Congress that revealing the reopening of the Hillary Clinton email probe just before Election Day came down to a painful, complicated choice between "really bad" and "catastrophic" options.
"I sat there that morning and could not see a door labelled, "No action here", Mr Comey said. He was grilled by both sides for almost four hours.
He strongly criticized WikiLeaks, the secret-spilling website that published emails from Democratic accounts that intelligence officials say were hacked by Russian Federation.
"And so I stared at "speak" and "conceal.' "Speak" would be really bad, there's an election in 11 days". Graham said Weiner shouldn't have had access to classified information and Comey agreed, adding that there is a possibility that a crime was committed. A "huge portion" of WikiLeaks' activities "has nothing to do with legitimate news activity ... but is simply about releasing classified information to damage the United States of America", he said.
Wire material from the Associated Press and The Washington Post were used in this report.
Sen. Lindsey Graham's interrogation of FBI Director James Comey in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday revealed that Russian Federation has continuing influence on the United States government beyond the recent presidential election.
Comey said the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been working against Russian hackers.
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