Obama raps FBI on Clinton probe: We don’t operate on innuendo

Barack Obama admonishes the head of the FBI over his decision to inform Congress members of possible new emails relating to an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server during her term as secretary of state. The timing of the letter, less than two weeks before the presidential elections, and its lack of details about the emails sparked outrage in the Clinton campaign.

“I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations we don’t operate on innuendo and we don’t operate on incomplete information and we don’t operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made,” Obama says, according to CNN.

The president’s comments, recorded yesterday, are his first public remarks on the issue since the FBI chief wrote to Congress members on Friday, informing them of the new discovery of the emails.

Dozens of former federal prosecutors signed a letter critical of James Comey’s letter, which they note did not include details of who had sent or received the emails, whether they include duplicates of messages that have already been reviewed or whether they contain any classified information.