Resignation letters piling up
at FBI, James Comey's wife urged director to
take powerful action, by Joe Kovacs, 10/30/16, WND
The decision by FBI Director James
Comey to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server and her
mishandling of classified material came after he could no longer resist
mounting pressure by FBI agents described as “mutinous.”
In an article for Britain’s Daily
Mail, bestselling author Ed Klein
reports some of Comey’s top deputies were in on the mutiny, according to a
source close to the director.
“The atmosphere at the FBI has been
toxic ever since Jim announced last July that he wouldn’t recommend an
indictment against Hillary,” said the source, who Klein says has known Comey
for nearly 20 years, goes to Catholic mass with him each week, and spends
family outings together.
“Some people, including department
heads, stopped talking to Jim, and even ignored his greetings when they passed
him in the hall,” said the source. “They felt that he betrayed them and brought
disgrace on the bureau by letting Hillary off with a slap on the wrist.”
The source says Comey agonized over
the issue for months and even talked about it with his wife, Patrice.
Comey told Patrice the stack of
resignation letters from livid agents was making him depressed, as they
reminded him that morale at the bureau had hit rock bottom.
“He’s been ignoring the resignation
letters in the hope that he could find a way of remedying the situation,'” said
the source, according to Klein.
“When new emails that appeared to be related to Hillary’s personal email server turned up in a computer used by [her close aide] Huma Abedin and [Abedin’s disgraced husband,] Anthony Weiner, Comey jumped at the excuse to reopen the investigation.
“The people he trusts the most have been
the angriest at him. And that includes his wife, Pat. She kept urging him to
admit that he had been wrong when he refused to press charges against the
former secretary of state.”
“He talks about the damage that he’s
done to himself and the institution [of the FBI], and how he’s been shunned by
the men and women who he admires and work for him. It’s taken a tremendous toll
on him. It shattered his ego. He looks like he’s aged 10 years in the past four
months.”
Klein says Comey’s decision to
reopen the case “was more than an effort to heal the wound he inflicted on the
FBI.” He was also worried that after the
presidential election, Republicans in Congress would mount a probe of how he
had granted Hillary political favoritism,” Klein wrote.
The new look at Hillary’s emails,
coming just 11 days before Election Day, is said to have shocked U.S. Attorney
General Loretta Lynch and prosecutors at the Justice Department.
“Jim told me that Lynch and Obama
are furious with him,” the source said.
Klein notes that President Obama
indicated his choice of Comey as FBI director was “my worst mistake as
president.” “Lynch and Obama haven’t contacted
Jim directly,” said the source, “but they’ve made it crystal clear through third
parties that they disapprove of his effort to save face.”
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