“I think he should be investigated by the Senate. He has let the country down for partisan purposes and that’s why I call him the new J Edgar Hoover, because I believe that,” Reid added, calling for the director’s resignation. Pressed on whether he believed Comey had information on Russia’s influence and sat on it, Reid replied: “That’s right, that is true.”
Look at what they did with athletes,” he added, alluding to the long-running doping scandal of Russian Olympic athletes. “Russia has a pretty good way of cheating. “They leaked the information as if it was run by one of the great political operatives in America when in fact it was run by the political operatives in Russia. “Everyone should know WikiLeaks was involved from the very beginning,” Reid continued. Comey testified to Congress in July that he was no longer a registered Republican, though he belonged to the party most of his life. “The FBI had this material for a long time but Comey, who is of course a Republican, refused to divulge specific information about Russia and the presidental election,” Reid told MSNBC’s AM Joy on Saturday. Harry Reid, outgoing Senate minority leader, compared FBI director James Comey to the agency’s notorious founder, J Edgar Hoover, and called for his resignation.Ī secret CIA analysis found that people with connections to the Russian government provided emails, hacked from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks in the final months of the election, according to a Washington Post report published late Friday.