Former US attorney unleashes on FBI director James Comey for his 'fake investigation' into Hillary Clinton's email scandal

Joseph diGenova, a former U.S. attorney now in private practice, bluntly said that “this investigation was a farce, and Comey knows it,” adding that “I do not believe at this point that Director Comey is fit to continue in office. I believe that a resolution of no confidence in him should be filed in the Senate…. “I believe that he has violated his oath as the director of the FBI because after looking at the entire record that he has made public – and it is not the entire record – it is very clear that from the moment he took control of this investigation, he decided that he was not going to recommend the prosecution of the first female nominee of a major party for president of the United States,” the former prosecutor stated. “The FBI director made a political decision. He did not make a law enforcement decision,” diGenova continued. “James Comey said that ‘no reasonable prosecutor’ would bring the case that they had come up with based on the facts. That is utter nonsense.



“His news conference - and it wasn’t a news conference because he didn’t answer any questions, but we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt – where he explained most of the details of [Clinton’s] transgressions, and then concluded to the amazement of most of the FBI agents in that building and almost all of the former FBI agents in the United States that there was no crime because there was no intent, was absolutely ludicrous,” he said. DiGenova described Comey’s follow-up memo to his staff defending his decision as an “embarrassment piled upon embarrassment”. “It is evident to me that what Mr. Comey should have done at the beginning of this investigation was impanel a grand jury. He did not do that. When you want to investigate crimes involving classified national security information, you don’t do interviews. You issue subpoenas to witnesses, third parties for documents, you make people come into court and fight them in front of a federal judge…



“Director Comey didn’t do that… because he didn’t want to investigate. He wanted to conclude this investigation before the election. And the only thing he could do to conclude it was to find that Mrs. Clinton did not commit a crime,” diGenova stated. “That conclusion, again by anyone who’s looked at this evidence who’s a reasonable prosecutor, is absolutely ludicrous. There were multiple crimes here committed by her, there were certainly crimes committed by lawyers involved in the case, by employees of the Clinton apparatus: the destruction of evidence, the manner in which witnesses were handled, one lawyer representing three or four witnesses - the Justice Department never permits that, but Comey and the attorney general allowed it - deletion of emails after they were subpoenaed by Congress, destruction of evidence by lawyers, which Mr. Comey says he found no criminal intent in that… “You’d have to be a loon not to question the integrity of his investigation. It’s so blatantly obvious,” diGenova continued. “This was like a cheap prize fight and he took a dive.”



“The FBI director made a political decision. He did not make a law enforcement decision,” diGenova continued. “James Comey said that ‘no reasonable prosecutor’ would bring the case that they had come up with based on the facts. That is utter nonsense. “His news conference - and it wasn’t a news conference because he didn’t answer any questions, but we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt – where he explained most of the details of [Clinton’s] transgressions, and then concluded to the amazement of most of the FBI agents in that building and almost all of the former FBI agents in the United States that there was no crime because there was no intent, was absolutely ludicrous,” he said. DiGenova described Comey’s follow-up memo to his staff defending his decision as an “embarrassment piled upon embarrassment”.