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FBI Director James B. Comey said at a hearing last week that it made him “mildly nauseous” to think that he may have influenced the outcome of the 2016 campaign.
New revelations about his apparently botched testimony are liable to make Democrats — and Comey — a little more than mildly nauseous. And they are going to damage Comey's best defense of his actions.
The Post's Devlin Barrett has confirmed ProPublica's reporting that Comey misstated key details of an investigation into Hillary Clinton at a hearing last week.
Specifically at issue are Comey's statements that:
- Top Clinton aide Huma Abedin “forwarded hundreds and thousands of emails” from Clinton's private email server to her husband, former congressman Anthony Weiner, as part of a “regular practice” of forwarding emails for Weiner to print out for Clinton, and …
- These emails contained classified information.
Barrett reports that this first claim is just not true and the second one obscures the fact that the few classified emails weren't marked classified at the time:
Neither of those statements is accurate, according to people close to the investigation. The investigation found that Abedin did occasionally forward emails to her husband for printing, but it was a far smaller number than described by Comey, and it wasn’t a “regular practice,’’ these people said. None of the forwarded emails were marked classified but a small number — a handful, one person said — contained information that was later judged to contain classified information, these people said.
To be clear, these weren't just small details that emerged from Comey's testimony on Wednesday; they were the headline for many new outlets that covered Comey's visit to the Senate Judiciary Committee, including The Post.
They were also key to Comey's testimony, in that he used them to defend his decision to disclose the new Clinton emails just 11 days before Election Day. Facing questions from Democrats about why he did what he did, Comey cited these facts as proof of the seriousness of the email discovery and the need to say something.
Democrats, including Clinton, have decried Comey's decision to offer details of an incomplete investigation so late in the election as pointless, extraordinary and even the difference between Clinton and Donald Trump winning the election. In candid remarks last week, Clinton posited that she would have been elected president if the election had been held Oct. 27 — the day before Comey's announcement.
The reason this is so troubling for Comey is because it calls into question his saving grace in this entire situation: his reputation as a nonpartisan, highly competent top law enforcement official.
Comey's first turn in the national spotlight came in 2007, when he delivered gripping testimony about a scene straight out of a movie. With Attorney General John Ashcroft confined to a bed in the intensive-care unit in 2004, Comey, his deputy, received a call that White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andy Card were on the way to the hospital to persuade the ill Ashcroft to reauthorize President George W. Bush's domestic surveillance program. Comey beat them there, and Ashcroft didn't sign the document.
“I was angry,” Comey testified. “I thought I just witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very sick man, who did not have the powers of the attorney general because they had been transferred to me.”
It was a moment of principle over politics, it seemed, and it has been cited as a key part of Comey's bio ever since.
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Comey would go on to be a bipartisan top political appointee when President Barack Obama picked him as FBI director in 2013. Over the course of the 2016 election, Comey found himself drawing huge amounts of criticism from both Republicans (for not recommending charges against Clinton in summer 2016) and then Democrats (for his late disclosure about the Abedin-Weiner emails). More recently, President Trump seems to have oscillated on how he feels about Comey, with Comey announcing that the FBI is investigating alleged contacts between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Through it all, there has always been an underlying belief among those who pay close attention to these things that Comey is a serious, apolitical public servant who may have made questionable decisions but whose heart was in the right place.
Getting details of such import wrong in his much-watched testimony to Congress certainly doesn't help him on the competence front; indeed, it's difficult to see how he could get them so wrong.
And for Democrats looking for reasons to believe that Comey was out to get them late in 2016, this will only feed the beast — fairly or unfairly.
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Mr. Trump cited Mr. Comey’s handling of the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s emails in saying he had concluded Mr. Comey was “not able to effectively lead the bureau.” Mr. Comey broke with tradition by announcing last summer that he would not recommend charges for Mrs. Clinton or her aides and criticizing her “extremely careless” handling of classified information.
Then in October, less than two weeks before Election Day, Mr. Comey informed Congress that officers had reopened the investigation based on the new emails found on Mr. Weiner’s computer. Democrats were infuriated by that decision, and Mrs. Clinton said it cost her the election.
Republicans seized on Mr. Comey’s testimony last week as evidence that Ms. Abedin or Mr. Weiner should have been charged for how they handled classified information. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas brought up Mr. Comey’s comments on Monday in another hearing, asking James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence, what he would have done if he learned that an employee “had forwarded hundreds or even thousands of emails to a nongovernment individual, their spouse, on a nongovernment computer.”
Mr. Clapper responded that if enough evidence were found, his office would have followed procedure and alerted the Justice Department that a crime was likely committed.
Mr. Comey said at last week’s hearing that the F.B.I. did not believe it had enough evidence to charge anyone with a crime in connection with Mrs. Clinton’s email server because it could not prove Mrs. Clinton or her aides intentionally broke the law.
“We could not prove that the people sending the information, either in that case or in the other case with the secretary, were acting with any kind of the mens rea — with any kind of criminal intent,” Mr. Comey said.
The New York Times noted in its coverage of Mr. Comey’s testimony on Wednesday that he had mischaracterized what the bureau had uncovered. A report late Monday in ProPublica saying that the F.B.I. was struggling to determine how to clarify Mr. Comey’s testimony set off a new round of criticism of his comments.
The investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server was a political liability throughout the 2016 presidential campaign. The case dragged on for months, contributed to Republican criticism that Mrs. Clinton was hiding something and created the spectacle of the Democratic front-runner being interviewed for hours at F.B.I. Headquarters last July.
The F.B.I. seized Mr. Weiner’s computer as part of a separate investigation into whether he had exchanged illicit text messages or photographs with a teenage girl. The bureau found evidence on the laptop that there were emails associated with Mrs. Clinton’s email server, and Mr. Comey gave his officers approval on Oct. 27 to request a search warrant to examine those emails. He informed Congress the next day.
The F.B.I. found nothing that changed its original conclusion not to recommend charges in the case.
In his testimony last week, Mr. Comey said that he felt obligated to inform Congress because he had testified earlier that the investigation had been completed.
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The Kushner family has been caught in a shameless act of name-dropping. It has been highlighting its White House connections to entice wealthy Chinese investors and promising them green cards in return under a special government visa program. That’s pretty bad. But it’s also a scandal that Congress allows real estate developers to use the American immigration system to pad their profits.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and special adviser, is officially no longer managing his family’s businesses, but he still benefits from many of them. His sister Nicole Meyer was in Beijing and Shanghai this past weekend seeking investors for a luxury apartment project her family is developing in Jersey City, a short train ride from downtown Manhattan. Her sales pitch cited her brother and laid out how a $500,000 investment could provide a coveted path to American citizenship. The Kushner Companies later offered a mealy-mouthed apology “if that mention of her brother was in any way interpreted as an attempt to lure investors.”
Ms. Meyer’s disturbing investor pitch was made possible by the EB-5 investor visa, which opens an express lane into the United States for those who can afford to invest nearly 10 times what the median American household earns in a year. The program, which covers business investments as well as real estate, was created in 1990 and took off in the past 10 years as developers figured out how to turn it into a cheap source of capital. Investors are willing to settle for low returns if it means they gain permanent residence status in the United States. Affluent Chinese families seeking a foothold in a stable democracy snap up most of the visas, which are capped at 10,000 a year.
The EB-5 program has been a scandal magnet. The Government Accountability Office and the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security say that immigration officials do not properly vet applications for fraud and illicit sources of money. The real estate industry also games the system by using the dark arts of gerrymandering. Under the program, investors have to put at least $1 million, and it has to lead to creation or preservation of at least 10 permanent, full-time jobs. But the minimum investment drops to $500,000 if applicants invest in rural areas or places with elevated unemployment. Developers working in, say, Midtown Manhattan or Beverly Hills can say that nearby depressed neighborhoods are included in the area when they apply for the program.
Defenders of EB-5 say it fosters investment and creates jobs. But many real estate projects funded through the program, including the Kushner Companies’ One Journal Square development in Jersey City, would almost surely have happened anyway. Without access to wealthy Chinese families, builders would raise more money from banks, pension funds and other investors by agreeing to pay higher interest rates, which would reduce their profits somewhat.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, and Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, introduced a bill in January that would eliminate the EB-5 program. Before Mr. Trump took office, the Department of Homeland Security proposed raising the minimum investments for the program, which could be a first step toward reforming it. But it is not clear whether the Trump administration or Congress will make substantial changes since influential real estate groups, including the Kushner and Trump families, benefit from it. Mr. Trump signed a spending bill last week that extended the EB-5 program without any changes through the end of September.
Mr. Trump made restricting immigration, including for refugees fleeing violence, a central plank of his campaign. Yet, he seems O.K. with letting real estate moguls take advantage of a program that sells green cards. In this administration, the interests of the first family and its rich and powerful friends come first.
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Mr. Comey broke with longstanding tradition and policies by discussing the case and chastising the Democratic presidential nominee’s “careless” handling of classified information. Then, in the campaign’s final days, Mr. Comey announced that the F.B.I. was reopening the case, a move that earned him widespread criticism.
“The F.B.I. is one of our nation’s most cherished and respected institutions and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement,” Mr. Trump said in the statement.
A longtime prosecutor who served as the deputy attorney general during the George W. Bush administration, Mr. Comey came into office with widespread bipartisan support.
Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon and a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a post on Twitter that Mr. Comey “should be immediately called to testify in an open hearing about the status of Russia/Trump investigation at the time he was fired.”
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In his testimony before the Senate on May 3, FBI Director James Comey misstated key findings in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, say people close to the inquiry. Clinton aide Huma Abedin forwarded a far smaller number of emails to her then-husband Anthony Weiner than Comey indicated, and none of them were marked as classified at the time. Clinton aide Huma Abedin forwarded a far smaller number of emails to Anthony Weiner than Comey indicated, and none of them were marked as classified. (Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post/Reuters)
FBI Director James B. Comey has been dismissed by the president, according to White House spokesman Sean Spicer.
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In his testimony before the Senate on May 3, FBI Director James Comey misstated key findings in the Hillary Clinton email investigation, say people close to the inquiry. Clinton aide Huma Abedin forwarded a far smaller number of emails to her then-husband Anthony Weiner than Comey indicated, and none of them were marked as classified at the time. Clinton aide Huma Abedin forwarded a far smaller number of emails to Anthony Weiner than Comey indicated, and none of them were marked as classified. (Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post/Reuters)
FBI Director James B. Comey has been dismissed by the president, according to White House spokesman Sean Spicer.
“The president has accepted the recommendation of the Attorney General and the deputy Attorney General regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Spicer told reporters in the briefing room, according to a pool report.
Earlier in the day, the FBI notified Congress that Comey misstated key findings involving the Hillary Clinton email investigation during testimony last week, saying that only a “small number’’ of emails had been forwarded to disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner, not the “hundreds and thousands’’ he’d claimed in his testimony.
The letter was sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, more than a week after Comey testified for hours in defense of his handling of the Clinton probe.
“This letter is intended to supplement that testimony to ensure that the committee has the full context of what was reviewed and found on the laptop,’’ wrote FBI Assistant Director Gregory A. Brower.
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FBI Director James Comey appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3. Here are key moments from that hearing. FBI Director James Comey appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3. Here are key moments from that hearing. (Video: Sarah Parnass/Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post)
In defending the probe at last week’s hearing, Comey offered seemingly new details to underscore the seriousness of the situation FBI agents faced last fall when they discovered thousands of Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s emails on the computer of her husband, Anthony Weiner.
“Somehow, her emails were being forwarded to Anthony Weiner, including classified information,” Comey said, adding later, “His then-spouse Huma Abedin appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding emails to him for him I think to print out for her so she could then deliver them to the secretary of state.”
At another point in the testimony, Comey said Abedin “forwarded hundreds and thousands of emails, some of which contain classified information.’’
Neither of those statements is accurate, said people close to the investigation.
Tuesday’s letter said “most of the emails found on Mr. Weiner’s laptop computer related to the Clinton investigation occurred as a result of a backup of personal electronic devices, with a small number a result of manual forwarding by Ms. Abedin to Mr. Weiner.’’
The letter also corrected the impression Mr. Comey’s testimony had left with some listeners that 12 classified emails were among those forwarded by Abedin to Weiner.
FBI Director James B. Comey testifies on May 3 before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
“Investigators identified approximately 49,000 emails which were potentially relevant to the investigation,” the letter said. “All were reviewed with a particular focus on those containing classified information. Investigators ultimately determined that two e-mail chains containing classified information were manually forwarded to Mr. Weiner’s account.’’
Ten other emails chains that contained classified information were found on the laptop as a result of backup activity.
The letter also clarified some of the figures Comey gave regarding ongoing terrorism probes.
The issue of Comey’s misstatements was first reported by ProPublica.
At the hearing, the statements about Abedin’s email practices were immediately seized on by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and others, who demanded to know why Abedin wasn’t charged with a crime. Comey said it was difficult finding evidence those involved in Clinton’s use of private email knowingly engaged in wrongdoing, and that traditionally the Justice Department has not prosecuted such cases without some indicator of intent.
Comey’s incorrect comments about Abedin surfaced again this week at a different Senate hearing, when Cruz pressed former director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. to say how he would handle an employee who “forwarded hundreds or even thousands of e-mails to a non-government individual, their spouse, on a non-government computer.’’
Clapper said such conduct “raises all kinds of potential security concerns.’’
At the hearing last week, Comey spent hours defending his handling of the investigation of Clinton’s use of a private server for work while she was secretary of state, saying it made him “mildly nauseous” to think his decisions might have affected the outcome of the presidential election, but insisting that he had no regrets and would not have handled it differently.
Comey’s decision-making during the Clinton inquiry has come under sustained criticism from Democrats — including Clinton — who say it was a major factor that contributed to her presidential election defeat in November to Donald Trump. On Oct. 28, less than two weeks before Election Day, the director notified Congress that new Clinton-related emails had been found on a laptop belonging to Weiner.
Days later, investigators obtained a search warrant to examine about 3,000 messages on the device that were work-related. Of those, Comey said, agents found a dozen that contained classified information, but they were messages investigators had already seen.
Comey’s public comments about the Clinton case have been a source of public debate since he first announced last July that he would not recommend charges against anyone in connection with her use of a private server for government business.
At the time, he called the use of the server “extremely careless’’ but said it did not rise to the level of a crime.
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The misstatements in testimony aren’t the first time Comey has overstated a key fact in a high-profile probe.
A year ago, while speaking at a security forum in London, the director miscalculated the price the FBI had paid for a technique to crack into a locked iPhone belonging to one of the dead suspects in a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif.
At the event, he said the cost of the phone hacking tool was “more than I will make in the remainder of this job, which is seven years and four months, for sure.’’ Based on Comey’s salary, his comment strongly implied the bureau paid at least $1.3 million to get into the phone, which belonged to Syed Rizwan Farook. Farook and his wife killed 14 people during a December 2015 terrorist attack.
People close to that case said the FBI actually paid about $900,000.
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Former acting attorney general Sally Yates and James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence, are testifying at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. This is the transcript, which will update frequently. SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, R-S.C.: … Our two witnesses are well known and will be […]