Its’ not Comey’s first rodeo with his connection to the Clintons
1st Printed July 7 2016 on American Freedom by Barbara
1st Printed July 7 2016 on American Freedom by Barbara
Comey’s letter on November
6, 2016 is his FOURTH time to fail to prosecute Clinton.
In July 2016 he stated the
FBI would not recommend charges be filed against Hillary in her e-mail scandal. Back on July 5, Comey
said: "Although there is evidence of potential violations of
statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgement is
that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."
In that same July
statement, Comey affirmed that the FBI had discovered multple e-mail
chains on what he called Clinton's "personal e-mail system" that were
classified at the time they were sent or received.
It’s
the fourth time Comey has weighed in on matters relating to the Clinton’s. In
1996, Comey served as deputy special counsel to the Senate special committee on
the Whitewater investigation, chaired by Republicans at the time, which linked
Hillary Clinton to the mishandling and destruction of documents.
Comey
was also involved at both ends of the case of Marc Rich, a billionaire oil
trader indicted for tax fraud and trading with Iran during the hostage crisis,
who was later pardoned by President Bill Clinton during
his final day in office in 2001. In a letter to the U.S. Senate, Comey
describes working as both the lead prosecutor in New York on the original case
against Rich in 1983 and then later, in 2002, overseeing criminal
investigations into Clinton’s last-minute pardons.
The
investigations concluded there was no wrongdoing on the president’s part,
despite public outcry over evidence that Rich’s ex-wife had donated to Hillary
Clinton’s Senate campaign.