And political pressure will fall on Comey and the Justice Department to make public what investigators have learned. "The vast majority of counterintelligence investigations will never see the inside of a courtroom," said former FBI counterintelligence agent Asha Rangappa, an associate dean of Yale Law School. "The purpose of a counterintelligence investigation isn't to find people, build a criminal case and put them in jail." But prosecution isn't the primary goal of a counterintelligence investigation. The most striking departure was the July news conference in which Comey detailed the bureau's decision to not recommend criminal charges against Clinton.

Source: Economic Times May 02, 2017 17:03 UTC