{"id":18887,"date":"2017-01-06T10:54:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T10:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=18887"},"modified":"2017-01-06T11:09:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T11:09:23","slug":"comey-defends-actions-during-challenging-u-s-election-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/politics\/comey-defends-actions-during-challenging-u-s-election-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Comey defends actions during &#8216;challenging&#8217; U.S. election year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Comey defends actions during &#8216;challenging&#8217; U.S. election year<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Comey defends actions during &#8216;challenging&#8217; U.S. election year<\/strong>:-FBI Director James Comey on Thursday defended his handling of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton&#8217;s email investigation during the contentious U.S. presidential election, according to a message to FBI staff reported by ABC News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Comey and the Federal Bureau of Investigation came under criticism from Republicans and Democrats amid its investigation into Democrat Hillary Clinton&#8217;s use of a personal email server while U.S. secretary of state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I would be lying if I said the external criticism doesn&#8217;t bother me at all, but the truth is, it doesn&#8217;t bother me much because of the way we made the decision,&#8221; Comey said in the New Year&#8217;s message, ABC reported. &#8220;At every turn last year, we were faced with choosing among bad options and making decisions we knew would bring a torrent of criticism.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The most furious criticism came after Comey disclosed that the FBI was examining a trove of newly discovered Clinton emails just 11 days before the Nov. 8 vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The new trove did not change the FBI&#8217;s decision not to recommend criminal charges against Clinton, Comey said a week later. 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