The FBI works under the authority of the President of the United States, yet it is also its own separate entity. The bureau can look into requests made by the Executive branch of the U.S., but it does conduct independent investigations on its own.
Often times this includes investigating political candidates, connections with foreign officials and whether or not any federal laws have been broken. The FBI looked into the Hillary Clinton email scandal during the presidential campaigns, despite harsh criticism from leaders of the Democratic Party.
Ultimately, the FBI has a job to do. Preventing a criminal from taking the country’s top political position is one such job. Since Donald Trump took office, the Democratic Party has looked for the FBI to do the same with the Trump administration, yet liberals have provided very little proof Donald Trump or his aides ever had direct connections with Russian officials regarding the election.
Recently, FBI Director Comey went in front of Congress regarding an assortment of investigations and claims. Often times, the FBI is not able to completely answer certain questions asked of it by Congress due to ongoing investigations. But when it came time to answer questions about whether or not Russia was involved in giving hacked emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta to WikiLeaks he had an answer.
The entire case that Democrats make that ‘Russia stole the election from Hillary’ is based on the premise that Russia supplied Podesta’s emails to WikiLeaks which then somehow led to Hillary’s defeat. That’s why Director Comey’s answer is so important.
What exactly did the director say? Check out the video to see Directory Comey answer in his own words.
