On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) blamed FBI Director James Comey reportedly acting on Russian intelligence that he knew was false during the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails by unilaterally declaring the investigation over while criticizing Clinton publicly on the fact that “knew that there were conservative media sites and other media platforms that were more than willing to propagate false Russian propaganda and Russian fake news.”
Lieu said, “I disagreed with FBI Director Comey’s decisions last year, but I can’t second-guess them, because he knew that there were conservative media sites and other media platforms that were more than willing to propagate false Russian propaganda and Russian fake news.”
Lieu added, “[T]here was no way for him or the FBI to really defend that information without, as we now know, conveying that they knew about certain sources that they would not want disclosed. So, they would have their hands tied and then you would have all these conservative media platforms propagating this fake news.”
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