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Obama Criticizes FBI Director Comey over Clinton Email Announcement

HeadlineNov 03, 2016

In news from the campaign trail, President Obama has criticized FBI Director James Comey for announcing an investigation into a new batch of Hillary Clinton emails. They were discovered as part of a probe into former Congressmember Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who is under investigation after he sent illicit sext messages to an underage girl. Comey’s announcement only days before Election Day has jolted the race and narrowed Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump. This is President Obama.

President Barack Obama: “And I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations, we don’t operate on innuendo, we don’t operate on incomplete information, we don’t operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made. When this was investigated thoroughly the last time, the conclusion of the FBI, the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was that she had made some mistakes, but that there wasn’t anything there that was prosecutable.”

Obama is campaigning for Clinton every day this week in North Carolina, Florida and Ohio.

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