If you could ask voters whether they would trust Hillary Clinton or the FBI director, I think the FBI director would come out ahead by a wide margin. Rendell’s political instinct here seems sound. Again, you know, I’m not running the campaign by any means, but I wouldn’t do that.” The often shockingly frank Rendell, asked by Philadelphia radio station WPHT interviewer Rich Zeoli whether attacking Comey was a “mistake,” said, “I generally do as well.” He went on, “I think that’s, I wouldn’t do that. (and former Philadelphia Mayor and District Attorney) Ed Rendell. One person who doesn’t think so is former Pennsylvania Gov. My point is political: Did it make sense for the Clinton campaign to attack the FBI director? I won’t repeat the defenses of Comey’s action made by many observers, except to refer to Andrew McCarthy’s invaluable contributions in National Review online: the gist is that having announced the investigation was over July 5, Comey was obliged to announce that it had been resumed Oct. This suggests they were acting in panic mode, since the letter was addressed, as is customary in Executive Branch letters to Congress, to both Republican and Democratic members.Ĭlinton herself attacked Comey on the campaign trail, and vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine and multiple Democrats and members of the press attacked him for allegedly disregarding Justice Department “protocols” in making his announcement. Friday afternoon, at which point Clinton Democrats immediately went into attack mode, charging first that his letter was sent only to Republican members of Congress. 27 that the FBI was investigating emails uncovered in another investigation “to determine whether they contain classified information” - obtained presumably from the homebrew email system employed by Clinton when she was secretary of state.Ĭomey’s announcement was made before 2 p.m. I have been puzzled by the Hillary Clinton campaign’s apparent strategy to attack FBI Director James Comey for notifying Congress Oct. “I’m puzzled by his strategy.” That’s a comment I heard some years ago from Democratic consultant Carter Eskew when I asked him what he thought of a ploy by an opposing candidate.
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