Didn't Comey say yesterday that the investigation of the potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia began last July?
Didn't Comey say yesterday that the investigation of the potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia began last July?
Which words do you take exception to?
HIMES: Thank you.
Director Comey, in -- in the remaining minutes here. I appreciate your frankness on the topic of an ongoing investigation and appreciate your inability to go too much further than you went. But I do want to ask you a question to try to clear up some confusion.
This committee, of course, is engaged in investigation about links, as you said, between the Trump campaign and the Russians, should there be any possible collusion. We've had a number of statements very early in the investigation that there was no evidence of collusion. This is still very early in our investigation, is it fair to say that you're still relatively early in your investigation?
COMEY: It's hard to say because I don't how much longer it will take. But we've been doing this -- this investigation began in late July, so for counterintelligence investigation that's a fairly short period of time.
HIMES: So, you used the word coordination which to me suggests that you are in fact investigating whether there was coordination between U.S. persons and the Russians. Is it fair for me to assume that we shouldn't simply dismiss the possibility that there was coordination or collusion between the Russian efforts and U.S. persons as an investigatory body?
COMEY: Well all I can tell you is what we're investigating which includes whether there was any coordination between people associated with the Trump campaign and the Russians.
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That, to me, says that they are not investigating the entire group. You are going to be very let down.
Ok thanks. "People associated".
So the investigation began last July.
Then the FBI publicly announced reopening Hillary's e-mail investigation on October 28.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/28/fbi-reopens-investigation-into-clinton-email-use.html
Yet the whole time, between July and October 28, there was never a peep about the ongoing investigation of Russia and people associated with the Trump campaign.
Does anyone else find that strange?