Ousted Meet the Press host David Gregory, now a media scold on CNN, ripped FBI Director James Comey for reentering the Hillary Clinton email scandal, calling it an “unprecedented” jump into a presidential race.
In making his case against Comey, however, Gregory did not mention that his lawyer wife has represented former Clinton aides involved in the scandal.
Gregory said, “What is also striking is the extent to which the FBI director of the United States is allowing himself to be injected into this political campaign. Unprecedented that he would have released the information he released after a decision not to recommend indictment.”
His slap came after Comey said he was looking anew at Clinton emails after finding out that former Rep. Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, had some of the emails on his computer.
The Media Research Center’s Newsbusters reported on Gregory, noting his failure to reveal his link to the email affair. Among his quotes, Gregory told host Wolf Blitzer:
What I think is striking is there’s no question that there’s political fallout from this, because it’s still a political football. What is also striking is the extent to which the FBI director of the United States is allowing himself to be interjected into this political campaign. Unprecedented that he would have released the information he released after a decision not to recommend indictment. You just don’t see that done ever, and now he is very publicly exchanging information with committees that are bent on keeping these investigations alive. And also striking is the silence of the Attorney General of the United States, who has rendered a judgment not to pursue anything criminally here, to allow this to remain such a political issue. I think this story of the politicization of these two roles is something that’s going to last far past the election.
Gregory joins New York Times correspondent Paul Krugman in criticizing Comey.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
