"If the election were on October 27, I would be your president", Clinton said.
The FBI began that counterintelligence investigation in late July, but he did not disclose that until a hearing in March, after Trump had been elected and taken office.
Comey testified a day after the unsuccessful Democratic presidential nominee said that she believed Comey's unusual letter to Congress Oct. 28 had essentially tilted the close race to her rival, Donald Trump. Some Republicans defended Comeys actions and pressed him about what evidence underpins accusations of the Trump campaign contacts with Russian Federation. "The Justice Department has a procedure". At the time, Weiner was married to Huma Abedin, who was a senior aide to Clinton. The FBI had seized Weiner's laptop in an investigation of sexual texts he had exchanged with a teenage girl.
"I've lived my entire career by the tradition that if you can possibly avoid it, you avoid any action in a run-up to an election that might have an impact, whether it's a dog catcher election or president of the United States, but I sat there that morning, and I could not see a door labeled "no action here", Comey said today during the hearing. "We could not prove that the people sending that [classified] information were acting with any kind of criminal intent". Weiner was being investigated separately for possible inappropriate communications with a minor. "We remain committed to working with the FBI as they continue their investigation to ensure that no stone is unturned". "We didn't say a word about it until months into it", he said. Loretta Lynch - had been compromised, especially by a meeting in June with former President Clinton.
"To not speak about it would require an act of concealment in my view", Director Comey said.
"It makes me mildly nauseous to think we might have had an impact on the election", Comey said. But there was nothing found that changed the FBI's decision not to recommend charges.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., asked Comey if he had any regrets in announcing last July that the FBI had closed the Clinton investigation and then in his October 28 letter said the FBI was taking additional steps.
"I'm now back to being an activist citizen and part of the resistance", Clinton told CNN in an interview earlier this week. "If I did something wrong, I want to hear that", he said.
But he added that he thinks he behaved appropriately and had no regrets about his decisions.
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Effort: "I always say that with dedication and hard work things work out naturally". "We will fight until the last drop of hope". Should Atletico overturn the deficit in front of them, it would certainly go down as one of the biggest comebacks in history.
An accountant who describes himself as methodical, Conaway is best known for his work on the House Agriculture Committee, where he is now chairman. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, opened the hearing by saying that "a cloud of doubt hangs over the Federal Bureau of Investigation".
It was Hillary who ran a poor campaign and lost to one of the most unpopular presidential candidates in history. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from SC. "In my view the greatest threat of any nation on earth given their intention and their capability", Comey answered, adding that although Russian Federation did not alter vote tallies in 2016, it has tried to do so in other countries and US officials should expect Russian Federation to replicate that effort in future USA elections. Dianne Feinstein of California.
Comey says both cases were treated consistently.
When he asked Comey on Wednesday why he had not replied, Comey again said he could not explain in public.
Feinstein said Comey could have instead gotten a search warrant to look through the computer and "find there was nothing new there".
The FBI considers the figure to be classified information.
Wire material from the Associated Press and The Washington Post were used in this report.
Comey was repeatedly questioned by senators Wednesday on why he spoke up on the Clinton emails investigation during the election but kept secret the FBI's probe into Russian interference during the campaign.
He said the probe into whether Russian hacking activities and American citizens was a classified investigation in its early stages, far different from the nearly completed Clinton e-Mail probe.
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