Speaking on Fox News Sunday, President Obama, who said last year he learned about Hillary’s emails from the news like the rest of us (how typical of him not to know about what’s going on in his own administration), made this odd guarantee about the investigation into the scandal:
President Barack Obama insisted in an interview with Fox News aired Sunday that the FBI and Justice Department will not protect Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton while investigating her private emails and server.
“I can guarantee that,” Obama said repeatedly in an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, who interviewed the president in his first appearance on “Fox News Sunday” during his seven-year tenure.
“I do not talk to the Attorney General about pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations,” Obama said. “I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department, or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case.”
That’s a funny guarantee from a guy who just last year rankled some in the FBI who thought he was trying to influence the investigation into Hillary’s emails. He says, “I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations” – maybe he doesn’t talk directly to them, on the phone or in person, but he talks to them through the press:
“I don’t think it posed a national security problem,” Mr. Obama said Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” He said it had been a mistake for Mrs. Clinton to use a private email account when she was secretary of state, but his conclusion was unmistakable: “This is not a situation in which America’s national security was endangered.”
Those statements angered F.B.I. agents who have been working for months to determine whether Mrs. Clinton’s email setup did in fact put any of the nation’s secrets at risk, according to current and former law enforcement officials.
Investigators have not reached any conclusions about whether the information on the server was compromised or whether to recommend charges, according to the law enforcement officials. But to investigators, it sounded as if Mr. Obama had already decided the answers to their questions and cleared anyone involved of wrongdoing.
The White House quickly backed off the president’s remarks and said he had not been trying to influence the investigation. But his comments spread quickly, raising the ire of officials who saw an instance of the president trying to influence the outcome of a continuing investigation — and not for the first time.
H/T: Joe Scarborough
A guarantee from Obama is about as good as his promise, “If you like your health plan you can keep it,” or him telling us the Benghazi terror attack was because of a video, or him saying, “There’s not even a smidgen of corruption” in the IRS scandal. I think we can all tell Obama where he can stick that guarantee…
Watch this video on President Obama’s comments:
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