US President Barack Obama today broke his silence over the FBI’s decision to launch a renewed probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email server as his secretary of state, saying in investigations “we don’t operate on innuendo” but “concrete decisions”.
Obama appeared to be critical of FBI director James B Comey in his remarks even as the White House refuted suggestions that the president gave any such impression.
“I do think that there is a norm that, you know, when there are investigations, we don’t operate on innuendo. We don’t operate on incomplete information. We don’t operate on leaks.
“We operate based on concrete decisions that are made,” he told website NowThisNews in first public comments after America’s top cop announced a renewed probe into a cache of recently discovered emails.
Comey had said the emails may or may not be pertinent to an earlier investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Clinton’s handling of classified information.