FBI chief James Comey says his decision to tell Congress that the agency had found new emails that could be relevant to Hillary Clinton’s private email server was not an easy one. Photo: BloombergWashington: An unfazed FBI chief James Comey on Wednesday strongly defended his controversial decision to alert Congress just days before the US general election about the probe into Hillary Clinton’s emails, saying concealing the probe developments would have been “catastrophic”. I would make the same decision,” Comey, 56, said. Asked why he publicly announced an investigation into Clinton’s emails days before the election, Comey said, “concealing in my view would be catastrophic.” “It makes me mildly nauseous to think we might have had some impact on the election. “FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!

Source: Mint May 03, 2017 16:41 UTC