FBI Director James Comey was grilled by Senator Dianne Feinstein about why he chose to announce, 11 days before the election, that the FBI was opening an investigation into a new set of Hillary Clinton emails (for which they had not even yet secured a warrant).
“Why wouldn't you just do the investigation as you would normally,” Feinstein asked, “with no public announcement?”
Said Comey:
“This was terrible. It makes me mildly nauseous to think we might have had some impact on the election …Even in hindsight I would have made the same decision. I sat there that morning and I could not see a door labeled ‘no action here.' I could see two doors, they were both actions. One was labeled ‘speak' and the other was labeled ‘conceal.'”
Added Feinstein: “You took an enormous gamble: the gamble was that there was something there that would invalidate her candidacy. And there wasn't.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QafxOpAQBhk
