Comey dropped Clinton, Lynch bombshell at testimony, fmr. FBI assistant director Gavin says
Former Asst. FBI Director Bill Gavin on Comeyâs testimony before the Senate
Former FBI Assistant Director Bill Gavin and Carbon Black National Security Strategist Eric OâNeill weigh in on former FBI Director James Comeyâs testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Former FBI Assistant Director Bill Gavin on Thursday said the biggest bombshell from former FBI Director James Comeyâs testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee was the revelation that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch urged him to classify the Hillary Clinton email probe as a "matter" and not an "investigation."
âWhen she [Lynch] told him [Comey] not to call this an investigation, but to call it a matter, this was a nefarious way of her making sure that the bureau and Jim Comeyâs investigators had no way of obtaining subpoenas to subpoena people before a grand jury, because you are not going to subpoena them off the kind of moniker that she put on this investigation,â Gavin told FOX Business, adding that Russiaâs involvement in the U.S. election was another crucial detail coming out of the hearing.
During the testimony, Comey said that the Arizona airport tarmac meeting between Lynch and former president Bill Clinton was a âdeciding factorâ in his decision to update the public on the Hillary Clinton email probe.
âThat was the thing that kept it for me that I had to do separately to protect the credibility of the investigation, which meant both the FBI and the Justice Department,â Comey told the Senate committee.
Eric OâNeill, a former FBI counterterrorism operative and Carbon Black National Security Strategist, told FOX Businessâ Connell McShane that what has been lost from Comeyâs testimony is Russiaâs involvement in the U.S. election.
âWe have to be concerned with foreign intelligence services that are launching cyberattacks at us,â he said, adding that âwhile we are looking back at this investigation of what happened during the election, Russia is planning their next attack and the next one after that.â