Obama slams his FBI director for Clinton email investigation: ‘We don’t operate on leaks’
The president also expressed confidence in Hillary Clinton's integrity
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Your support makes all the difference.President Obama criticized his FBI director’s decision to alert Congress over the discovery of new evidence relating to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
“We don’t operate on incomplete information,” Mr Obama told NowThisNews in an interview published on Wednesday. “We don’t operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made.”
“When this was investigated thoroughly the last time, the conclusion of the FBI, the conclusion of the Justice Department, the conclusion of repeated congressional investigations was that she had made some mistakes but that there wasn’t anything there that was prosecutable.”
On Tuesday, Mr Obama’s press secretary, Josh Earnest, said that the White House did not have an official position on the matter. Still, without mentioning James Comey by name, the president laid into his director for his handling of the “political controversy.” He’s currently campaigning with Ms Clinton and expressed his confidence in her integrity and her commitment to young people and their futures.
'We don't operate on innuendo' — President Obama discusses Hillary, emails, and the FBI in an exclusive interview with NowThis pic.twitter.com/0J6tJyEYSh
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 2, 2016
“I’ve made a very deliberate effort to make sure that I don’t look like I’m meddling in what are supposed to be independent processes for making these assessments,” he explained.
“Setting aside the particulars in this case, she is someone who has always looked out for the interests of America and America’s people first.”
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