‘Extraordinary Impropriety’: Clinton Attorney Says FBI Director’s Letter ‘Produced Devastating but Predictable Damage’

Judge Forces Release of Warrant That Was Filed After Comey Letter Released

Responding to the release of the warrant the FBI filed in October to access emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop, Hillary Clinton’s attorney Tuesday afternoon slammed FBI Director James Comey’s letter to members of Congress eleven days before the election, that forever changed the direction of the presidential race.

“Today’s release of the FBI affidavit highlights the extraordinary impropriety of Director Comey’s October 28 letter, publicized two days before the affidavit, which produced devastating but predictable damage politically and which was both legally unauthorized and factually unnecessary,” David Kendall of Williams & Connolly said in a statement.

“The affidavit concedes that the FBI had no basis to conclude whether these emails were even pertinent to that closed investigation, were significant, or whether they had, in fact, already been reviewed prior to the closing of the investigation,” he continued.

“What does become unassailably clear, however, is that as the sole basis for this warrant, the FBI put forward the same evidence the bureau concluded in July was not sufficient to bring a case — the affidavit offered no additional evidence to support any different conclusion.”

As NCRM reported earlier, Comey’s letter is believed by many to have dealt a fatal blow to the Clinton campaign’s chances of winning the White House.

E. Randol Schoenberg, the famous California attorney who filed a freedom of information request to see the FBI’s warrant, said after examining the document he was “appalled,” and added, “I see nothing at all in the search warrant application that would give rise to probable cause.”

“It’s more likely something criminal happened in the obtaining of the search warrant than… Hillary Clinton did something wrong,” Schoenberg told the Jewish Journal earlier this month.

“It’s like somebody’s been to your house and searched ten times and says, ‘Oops, there’s a drawer I missed. Can I go back in?’” Schoenberg said of the FBI’s re-examination of Clinton’s emails.

“Countless American citizens, including Secretary Clinton, believe that [FBI Director James] Comey’s announcement and the re-opening of the investigation might have single-handedly swayed the election,” Schoenberg says in a lawsuit against the FBI, the Journal adds.

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