“Should
you consider what you’re about to do may help elect Donald Trump
president?” an adviser asked him, Mr. Comey recalled recently at a
closed meeting with F.B.I. agents.
He
could not let politics affect his decision, he replied. “If we ever
start considering who might be affected, and in what way, by what we do,
we’re done,” he told the agents.
But
with polls showing Mrs. Clinton holding a comfortable lead, Mr. Comey
ended up plunging the F.B.I. into the molten center of a bitter
election. Fearing the backlash that would come if it were revealed after
the election that the F.B.I. had been investigating the next president
and had kept it a secret, Mr. Comey sent a letter informing Congress
that the case was reopened.
What
he did not say was that the F.B.I. was also investigating the campaign
of Donald J. Trump. Just weeks before, Mr. Comey had declined to answer a
question from Congress about whether there was such an investigation.
Only in March, long after the election, did Mr. Comey confirm that there
was one....
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