FBI/INTELLIGENCE: “James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, on Wednesday [5-3-17] sharply defended his rationale for notifying Congress about new emails related to the Hillary Clinton investigation less than two weeks before Election Day, saying any suggestion that he had affected the vote’s outcome made him ‘mildly nauseous.’
Mr. Comey’s comments were his first public explanation about his actions, which roiled the presidential campaign in its final days.
The F.B.I. director said he went public on Oct. 28 because he believed his agents had possibly found emails that could provide insight into Mrs. Clinton’s reasons for using a private email server and change the outcome of the investigation. Mr. Comey said that failing to inform Congress would have a required an ‘act of concealment.’
‘Concealment in my view would have been catastrophic,’ Mr. Comey said.
Unlike a House Intelligence Committee hearing in March in which Mr. Comey took the extraordinary step of confirming the existence of an investigation into Russian meddling in the election, the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday was a more routine congressional oversight procedure. But it nonetheless produced the dramatic moment from Mr. Comey.”
-Adam Goldman, “James Comey Says He’s ‘Mildly Nauseous’ at Suggestions He Swayed Election,” The New York Times online, May 2, 2017