He continued, "In the case of Secretary Clinton's emails, Mr. Comey was willing to step beyond his role as an investigator and state his belief about what "no reasonable prosecutor" would conclude about the evidence".
"I'm a little confused", Comey responded.
Odd because McCain isn't actually on the Senate intelligence committee.
I get the sense from Twitter that my line of questioning today went over people's heads.
MCCAIN: "That investigation have any involvement of Secretary Clinton or any of her associates is completed?"
Comey answered that the Clinton email investigation was a completed, closed investigation at the time he announced in July that "no reasonable prosecutor" would bring a case against her, while the Russian Federation investigation is still underway and could be for some time.
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McCain went on: "At the same time you made the announcement there would be no charges brought against then-Secretary Clinton for any activities involved in the Russian Federation involvement in our engagement, in our election". It was a freakish argument from McCain, who appeared annoyed with Comey.
Comey said Lynch's request that he call the Justice Department's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server a "matter" as opposed to an "investigation" partially lead to his decision to publicly comment on the situation. Was he arguing that Comey didn't investigate Clinton vigorously enough?
Complicating things somewhat is the fact that in late October - much to Clinton's chagrin - Comey announced that the investigation into her email server was re-opening after a new batch of emails had been discovered on a computer belonging to Huma Abedin, a top Clinton aide, and her husband at the time Anthony Weiner.
The former FBI director's revelation makes clear that, in the heat of a presidential campaign, the sitting president's attorney general attempted to interfere with an investigation into the Democratic Party's candidate for president of the United States.
"I think it's interesting that the media really hasn't focused on that". That he had gone easy on Clinton but hadn't extended that same courtesy to Trump. "You're going to have to help me out here", McCain said.
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