Last July, FBI Director James Comey took the extraordinary step of holding a press conference to provide all sorts of details about the agency’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. His conclusion: No charges were warranted.
Then a week before the election he once again broke with protocol by sending a letter to Congress stating there were newly discovered emails, only to declare two days before the election they weren’t significant.
Yet we now know that soon after that July press conference, Comey knew the bureau was investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians trying to influence the outcome of the election. No press conference. No letter to Congress. No mention of any investigation into President Donald Trump or his campaign until two months after the inauguration.
Maybe all of this is just coincidence, but it sure seems like Comey was acting to benefit one campaign over the other last year, which would be a clear violation of the Hatch Act.
— John Houck, Schaumburg
