In new emails revealed by prosecutors in the case against him, then-FBI Director James Comey boasts how a “President-elect” Hillary Clinton would be “very grateful” for the actions that he took ahead of the 2016 election.
Comey is charged with making false statements and obstructing Congress concerning testimony in 2020 in which he stood by earlier 2017 testimony saying he did not approve of anonymous leaks to the news media on high-profile cases involving Clinton’s emails and Donald Trump’s now-debunked ties to a Russian plot to influence the election.
Comey not only openly talked about how he expected to be working for Clinton, he was being continually updated by a top aide at the bureau on efforts to anonymously provide information to the news media, federal prosecutors revealed on Monday.
“Well done my friend. Who knew this would. E [sic] so uh fun,” Comey wrote in an early November 2016 email after then-FBI special government employee Dan Richman briefed him on Richman’s efforts to provide information and guidance to The New York Times on an article involving Clinton’s email scandal.
The Comey emails were referenced in a court filing by acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan and her deputy, Tyler Lemmons, in which federal prosecutors rejected Comey’s argument that he was being maliciously prosecuted for misleading Congress about actions he took as FBI director.
Halligan cited emails in which Comey was clearly aware that Richman was working to provide information anonymously to news outlets about the Clinton email case and that he expected those outreach efforts would end with Clinton defeating GOP candidate Trump in the November 2016 election.