Comey said "yes" when Senator Lindsey Graham asked when it comes to Russian Federation, is it fair to say that Russian Federation actively provides safe haven to cyber criminals.
Senators then asked Director Comey why he chose to go public with the investigation of Hillary Clinton but not the investigation of whether Donald Trump or his associates had inappropriate contact with Russian agents.
Comey said he was faced with two options: either hide the investigation until after the vote, or inform Congress.
"I can't consider for a second whose political futures will be affected and in what way", Comey said.
Dianne Feinstein of California, wants Comey to explain the differences how the FBI handled its investigation into the Trump campaign and an investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
US President Donald Trump, in a series of late night tweets on Tuesday, both revisited his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton and seemingly slammed the judgment of his own Federal Bureau of Investigation director. Comey said he alerted Congress of the finding, with the full expectation that lawmakers would leak that discovery.
Worries about Russian hacks plagued the USA presidential election and its aftermath, with U.S. intelligence agencies accusing Russia of meddling in the race for the White House.
"Today's hearing provided our committee members with a valuable opportunity to ask follow-up questions from the open hearing", they said in a brief statement. You're darn right I heard about it, ' Giuliani said at the time.
The highest-ranking Democrat on the intelligence committee, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, said he thought the investigation was ready to move forward, though a hearing with former officials from the Obama administration, including Yates, is only now being rescheduled. Lindsey Graham the same thing in testimony this coming Monday.
"Is it fair to say that the Russian government is still involved in American politics?" Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa., asked Comey if the FBI was investigating whether members of the Obama administration leaked information about the Trump team to the media. "Not going to comment on anyone in particular", Comey told the senator.
Though officials found many new emails, officials again found insufficient evidence that anyone had meant to break the law, Comey said.
"Yes", he said, answering a question from Sen. He likened what the website does to "intelligence porn".
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Comey also says Russian Federation is responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee.
COMEY: If there was a challenge, with any investigation, that I couldn't resolve at the working level, I would elevate it to the deputy attorney general, or whoever was in charge of it.
"There's no Anthony Weiner statute", Comey said. "The Justice Department has a procedure".
"Look, this is bad", he said of the email revelation.
He added: "It makes me mildly nauseous to think we might have had some impact on the election". "But, honestly, it wouldn't change the decision". "Everybody who disagrees with me has to come back to October 28 with me and stare at this and tell me what you would do".
James Comey: "I was not". "What they could see from the metadata that they found on Anthony Weiner's laptop is that there were thousands of new emails. including what might be the missing emails from her Verizon Blackberry". "We make judgments trying to do the right thing and I believe, even with hindsight, we made the right decisions".
I think she doesn't give us honesty about what - the bad judgments that she made with regard to the email server, the fact that she misread the mood of the country, the fact that Republicans came home for Donald Trump when she and many others didn't feel that they would.
"I wish he would come clean and say he didn't have to do this [Clinton announcement]", he said Wednesday on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront".
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. Trump tweeted just before 11 p.m.
FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday answered senators' questions about the probe into Hillary Clinton's emails, Russian Federation and Wikileaks.
Comey brushed it off Wednesday, saying he didn't give Clinton a free pass. If there were a lack of cooperation on the part of the Trump White House?
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