Did James Comey Misunderstand the Clinton Email Case?
The FBI director incorrectly told a Senate panel that Huma Abedin forwarded thousands of emails to her husband Anthony Weiner.
It’s not enough to make James Comey reach for his Dramamine again.
A week after the FBI director told the Senate Judiciary Committee that it makes him “mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election” with an October 28 letter to Congress about newly discovered Hillary Clinton emails, several reports suggest that Comey misstated an important fact about that potentially election-tipping revelation.
On October 28, 2016, Comey wrote to members of Congress, telling them that although he
