© Adrees Latif / Reuters John Podesta
Podesta, the chair of Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaign and former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, said Monday that "forces within the FBI wanted [Clinton] to lose." It was Podesta's first interview since the November election.
Podesta told journalist John Heilemann that FBI director James Comey's decision to publicly disclose that the bureau was looking into more of Clinton's emails, just 11 days before election day, was "inexplicable."
Podesta said he believes there are only two reasons why the FBI would pursue Clinton in the public way they did:
"There are at least forces within the FBI that wanted her to lose. I'm not sure they really understood the alternative, but they wanted her to lose. I think that's one possibility."
"I think the other is it's just become a cover-your-ass organization, and there was pressure coming up from underneath him, and he succumbed to that pressure."
Comment: Absolutely there was pressure coming up from field agents frustrated at having Killary dead to rights on her, her slimy staff, and associations, and nothing being done about it.
The Real Reasons Why James Comey Reopened the Clinton Email Investigation
Former federal attorney for the District of Columbia Joe diGenova spelled it all out in a WMAL radio interview last Friday just hours after the news was released that Comey had sent a letter informing Congress that the case is being reopened. DiGenova said that with an open revolt brewing inside the FBI, Comey was forced to go public on Friday with reopening the investigation. The former DC attorney added that the FBI investigators discovered more emails on a phone confiscated from the former New York Congressman and separated husband Anthony Weiner that also included his wife and longtime Hillary's right-hand woman Huma Abedin's communications that allegedly bear pertinent relevance to the Hillary case.
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The legions of rank and file FBI agents were already fuming over Comey's complete ethical and legal lapses in his choice not to indict Hillary. Joe diGenova believes that FBI personnel forced Comey's hand to reopen the investigation after giving him the ultimatum that if he failed to do so, the FBI defiantly would.
Comment: What goes around comes around, cupcake. If Killary, Huma, Podesta, and the rest of them hadn't been up to their eyeballs in corruption and other nefarious activities, they wouldn't be in this situation. Wikileaks did the American citizens a public service.