‘Baloney’: Dianne Feinstein Rips ‘Sanctimonious’ Comey for Actions in Clinton Probe

Senator Dianne Feinstein, one of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, opened her questioning of FBI Director James Comey Wednesday by asking why it was necessary for Comey to publicly disclose that he was investigating the contents of Anthony Weiner‘s computer. Comey responded that it he felt it would have been “catastrophic” to conceal his investigation at that point because the device could conceivably have contained emails from Hillary Clinton‘s tenure as Secretary of State.

Appearing on MTP Daily on Wednesday, Feinstein was asked by host Chuck Todd if she was convinced by the FBI director’s response.

“No,” Feinstein said. “As a matter of fact it went strongly the other way.”

She added that she thought Comey’s argument was “baloney”:

“If you have a doubt, and there was reason to have many doubts, you’d get a search warrant. And you’d say ‘Let’s see what we have before we go out and indict.’ And if they looked at what they had, they’d have to say ‘Well, there’s nothing new. We looked at all of this before.’ Ergo, there’s no case. And then two days before the election, he came back and essentially said that. But it was too late then.”

In the end, after hours testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Feinstein still found herself unable to make sense of Comey’s rationale for writing his letter to Congress.

“It is very hard for me to believe that he felt so sanctimonious about having to come forward,” Feinstein said.

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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