President Obama is bending over backward to respect FBI Director James Comey’s independence, but it sure doesn’t sound like he’s happy that Comey defied all precedent as well as Justice Department policies in unleashing speculation based on a vague story about Hillary Clinton-related emails just before the election:
"I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations we don't operate on innuendo and we don't operate on incomplete information and we don't operate on leaks," Obama said in the interview, which was taped Tuesday. "We operate based on concrete decisions that are made. When this was investigated thoroughly last time the conclusion of the FBI, the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was she had made some mistakes but that there wasn't anything there that was procecutable."
“There is a norm,” Obama says … and between the lines it’s easy to read that’s a norm that Comey completely violated. “We operate based on concrete decisions that are made” … except that’s not what Comey did in this case.
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