FBI Director Has No Regrets About His Fateful 2016 Decision
Updated on May 3 at 12:24 p.m.
FBI Director James Comey has no regrets about the agency’s handling of the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server just days before the presidential election.
“It was a hard choice, I still believe in retrospect the right choice, as painful as it’s been,” Comey told the Senate Judiciary committee, adding that the thought that he had affected the 2016 election made him “mildly nauseous.”
Comey was back on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning to testify in what was billed as a routine congressional and Clinton herself have blamed Comey’s letter and subsequent news coverage of the event for her defeat in the 2016 presidential election. In March, Comey revealed for the first time that the Trump campaign related to its ties to the Russian government, since the summer of 2016.
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