I think the problem with this reaction is that at the time NO ONE Knew for sure or not whether the Email was fake or not and that is what is being left out of this the way it is being discussed. People might think now it is fake and it may be fake or not but that isn't what happened initially.
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Graham: It's 'stunning' Comey never told Congress about fake email
Story highlights
- Graham called the report "stunning"
- He said Comey needed to answer for it
Washington (CNN)Sen.
Lindsey Graham said Sunday that former FBI Director James Comey would
have been "incredibly incompetent" if he took actions based on email he
knew to be fake.
Graham
said in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" that Comey told the
Senate and House select committees on intelligence about such an email,
but never indicated it was fake.
"He
talked to members of the Senate and House intel committee that he was
sitting on emails that the Russians had between the Democratic Party and
the Department of Justice that were highly explosive," Graham said. "He
never once told a member of the House or the Senate that he thought the
email was fake."
Graham
is not a member of the Senate intelligence committee, but is helming an
investigation from a Senate judiciary subcommittee into Russian
involvement in the 2016 election.
On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported
that the FBI received a document detailing a supposed email from Rep.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was at the time the head of the Democratic
National Committee, where she said someone in the Department of Justice
told her Attorney General Loretta Lynch was containing the
investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices as secretary of
state. The report said the details came from "a dubious Russian
document" and that this document influenced Comey's decision to make his
thinking on the case public. On Friday, CNN reported that Comey acted on this document, even though he knew it to be fake.
Graham called the report "stunning" and said Comey "needs to be held accountable."
"I
can't imagine a scenario where it's OK for the FBI director to jump in
the middle of an election based on a fake email generated by the
Russians and not tell the Congress," Graham said.
Graham
said that if the email described in the document was fake, the US
needed further sanctions on Russia, but also allowed for the possibility
that it was real.
"I want to get to the bottom of it," Graham said. "I want to see the email."
Wasserman Schultz has denied knowing the people in the report, let alone writing the email.
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