04 November,2016 08:16 AM IST | | Agencies
US President Barack Obama yesterday broke his silence over FBI’s decision to launch a renewed probe into Hillary Clinton’s use of private email server as his secretary of state, saying in investigations “we don’t operate on innuendo” but “concrete decisions”
Orlando: US President Barack Obama yesterday broke his silence over FBI's decision to launch a renewed probe into Hillary Clinton's use of private email server as his secretary of state, saying in investigations "we don't operate on innuendo" but "concrete decisions".
Obama appeared to be critical of FBI director James B Comey in his remarks even as the White House refuted suggestions that the president gave any such impression.
"I do think that there is a norm that when there are investigations, we don't operate on innuendo. We don't operate on incomplete information. We don't operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made," he told website NowThisNews in the first public comments after America's top cop announced a renewed probe into a cache of recently discovered emails.
Comey had said the emails may or may not be pertinent to an earlier probe into Democratic nominee Clinton's handling of classified information.
Obama said he has made a "deliberate effort to make sure that I don't look like I'm meddling" in what are supposed to be independent processes for making these assessments.
