Weld: Comey, FBI ‘off the reservation’
Libertarian vice presidential nominee Bill Weld on Monday joined those criticizing FBI Director James Comey for the letter he sent to lawmakers last week announcing the review of new emails related to Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
{mosads}”It’s getting worse and worse. Friday was the letter. Yesterday, law enforcement officials said, ‘We got a warrant to look at the emails that we told you we’d found. We don’t know what’s in them but we got a warrant,'” Weld said during an interview Monday on CNN.
“So what’s tomorrow? … They’re totally off their reservation. And let’s be honest, they’re playing hit and run.”
Comey on Friday sent a letter to Congress telling them the bureau would be reviewing newly discovered emails it says are “pertinent” to its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private server while secretary of State.
The emails were discovered during a separate investigation into former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) over an alleged online relationship with a 15-year-old girl. Weiner is the estranged husband of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
Weld said there is no way for the Democratic presidential nominee to know “what the evidentiary basis is on which they made this update to their investigation.”
“And they’ve said themselves they don’t know it, which makes it all the more unreasonable to have waded into these waters in the first place,” he said.
Since the release of the letter, Democrats and Clinton aides have ramped up pressure on the FBI and Comey to release more details about the agency’s review of the new emails.
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