House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that FBI Director James Comey could become a casualty of the election given his decision to publicize a probe into new emails related to Hillary Clinton with just a week to go before voters head to the polls.
“Maybe he’s not in the right job,” Pelosi told CNN. “I think that we have to just get through this election and just see what the casualties are along the way.”
Democrats have excoriated Comey for the letter he sent members of Congress on Friday, in which he said the emergence of new emails had prompted his agents to take “investigative steps” in the Clinton case he closed more than three months earlier.
President Obama suggested Wednesday that Comey had improperly used “innuendo” in his letter, although White House spokesman Josh Earnest had said the president does not plan to defend or criticize the FBI director’s move.
Echoing the argument of other prominent Democrats, Pelosi said Wednesday that Comey had applied a “double standard” to Clinton by announcing his investigation into her associates but reportedly papering over the bureau’s discovery that Russian-backed groups had interfered in the election.
