Comey knifes Loretta Lynch too:

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[h=1]Comey knifes Loretta Lynch too: Ex-FBI boss reveals Obama's attorney general ordered him NOT to call Hillary email probe an investigation[/h]

• James Comey said that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch wanted the Hillary Clinton email investigation labeled publicly as a 'matter'
• He felt that indicated a conflict of interest between Lynch and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign
• Comey acknowledged that Lynch's meeting with former President Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac led him to the decision to hold a press conference last year

 

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FBI Director James Comey knifed former attorney general Loretta Lynch on Thursday for asking him to publicly downgrade Hillary Clinton's classified email investigation, calling it only 'a matter.'
In a contentious Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Comey said the request 'concerned me' and made him 'queasy.'
'We were at the point where we had refused to confirm the existence – as we typically do – of an investigation for months,' he said, 'and it was getting to the place where that looked silly because the campaigns were talking about interacting with the FBI in the course of our work.'

 

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Former FBI Director James Comey (left) said that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch (right) wanted the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails only labeled as a 'matter'

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Hillary Clinton's email investigation also came up during former FBI head James Comey's testimony Thursday, as he explained that he decided to hold a press conference after former Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with Clinton's husband Bill on an airport tarmac

'The Clinton campaign at the time was using all sorts of euphemisms – security reviews, matters, things like that – for what was going on,' Comey recalled.
And when he asked Lynch if he could confirm what everyone already knew, that there was an active 'investigation' of Hillary Clinton, she told him no.
'Don't call it that. Call it a "matter",' Lynch told him. 'Just call it a "matter".'
'It gave the impression that the attorney general was looking to align the way we talked about our work with the way a political campaign was describing the same activity,' Comey recalled.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, asked Comey if there appeared to be a 'conflict of interest' between Lynch and the Clinton campaign.
'That's fair,' Comey replied. 'I don't think she could credibly decline that investigation, at least not without grievous damage to the Department of Justice and the FBI.'
Comey also said it was Lynch's infamous meeting with former president Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac that pushed him into going public last year about the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr raised eyebrows with a momentary flashback to Comey's July 5, 2016 press conference, in which he described a host of potential criminal offenses committed by Hillary Clinton.
Comey said former attorney general Lynch's private meeting with Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac was the last straw that convinced him he had to come forward.
The FBI ultimately did not recommend criminal charges against Mrs. Clinton, who was running for president against Donald Trump at the time.
But Comey's public statements spelled the beginning of the end for her White House ambitions.
That tarmac meeting, which raised suspicions of collusion, influenced him 'in an ultimately conclusive way,' Comey testified.
'That was the thing that capped it for me, that I had to do something separately to protect the credibility of the investigation,' he said.

 

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Later in Thursday's hearing, the ex-FBI chief explained why he decided to hold the press conference, but not call publicly for a special counsel to be appointed to the emails case, which members of Congress were calling for.
'After former President Clinton met on the plane with the attorney general I considered whether I should call for the appointment of a special counsel and decided that would be an unfair thing to do because I knew there was no case there,' Comey said.
The FBI, he continued, had investigated Hillary Clinton's email use 'very, very thoroughly.'
'I know this is a subject of passionate disagreement, but I knew there was no case there and calling for the appointment of special counsel would be brutally unfair, because it would send a message "ahh, there's something here,"' Comey said.
Cornyn, the Republican from Texas, suggested that a special counsel would have come to the same conclusion.
'Sure,' Comey answered. 'But it woud have been many months later, years later.'

 

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So, Comey had no problem with what is clearly collusion between the Attorney General and the Clinton campaign?

 

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The loyal Obama-Hillary media didn't care one bit! Not one bit!! They should have been beating the drum daily but stayed silent! That should clearly show everyone the progressive liberal media is in bed with Democrats!