Bill Kristol says the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its director, James Comey, should come forward as soon as possible with the nature of their reopened investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server. Joining Cokie Roberts on ABC’s Good Morning America Saturday morning, the WEEKLY STANDARD editor noted that Comey has “the entire FBI at his disposal” and that the agency could conceivably sift through these new emails and documents quickly.
“He needs to report, in my view, on Monday or Tuesday, are we dealing with something serious and significant that would change his judgment from a few months ago, or are these just sort of more emails, the same kind of thing, some carelessness, I suspect, but nothing that fundamentally changes it,” Kristol said.
“This notion that we’re just going to sit here and not know more ten days from now, I think, is unacceptable,” he added.
Kristol also took to Twitter to expand on his thoughts.
On the one hand, Comey doesn’t want this to be ’72, when Watergate only comes out after Nixon’s re-election. On the other, consider… 1/
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 29, 2016
…’92, with Walsh’s disgraceful and (I’m convinced) politically motivated indictment of Weinberger et al 5 days before Election Day. 2/
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 29, 2016
Solution to the ’72/’92 conundrum: Comey has to explain early next week whether the presumed Clinton-Abedin emails fundamentally change.. 3/
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 29, 2016
…his judgment from July or not. The notion that the FBI, with its resources, can’t go through the emails in a couple of days… 4/
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 29, 2016
…is ridiculous. He doesn’t have to indict or not indict, or conclude x, y or z–but having written the letter to the Hill he did,… 5/
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 29, 2016
…he needs to follow up by explaining the basic state of play ASAP, & not hide behind “can’t compromise an ongoing investigation” talk. 6/
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 29, 2016
My guess, for what it’s worth: Comey doesn’t write the letter unless they think this is or at least could be a big deal. 7/
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 29, 2016
And “appear to be pertinent” can’t just mean there exist emails from Clinton to Abedin. That in itself isn’t a big deal. 8/
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 29, 2016
One assumes the investigators had some reason to be concerned or to suspect that either the emails do contain classified information, 9/
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 29, 2016
…or that they should have been turned over by Clinton because they’re work-related and weren’t, or that they seem to contain other…10/
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 29, 2016
perhaps culpable information, instructions, etc. In any case, Comey should clarify situation as soon as he can, which should be soon. END
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 29, 2016
