Trump: Comey should have never exonerated Clinton

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62. You Must Be Reading The Wrong Memo. Memo Criticizes Comey's Disclosures...

...it does not focus on Comey's alleged failure to charge Hillary Clinton:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/09/us/politics/document-White-House-Fires-James-Comey.html

It criticizes Mr. Comey for overstepping his role.

“The Director was wrong to usurp the Attorney General’s authority on July 5, 2016, and announce his conclusion that the case should be closed without prosecution. It is not the function of the Director to make such an announcement. At most, the Director should have said the F.B.I. had completed its investigation and presented its findings to federal prosecutors.”

It criticizes Mr. Comey’s disclosures about Mrs. Clinton’s conduct.

“Compounding the error, the Director ignored another longstanding principle: we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal investigation. … The Director laid out his version of the facts for the news media as if it were a closing argument, but without a trial. It is a textbook example of what federal prosecutors and agents are taught not to do.”

It portrays Mr. Comey’s late-October letter as a mistake.

“Concerning his letter to the Congress on October 28, 2016, the Director cast his decision as a choice between whether he would ‘speak’ about the decision to investigate the newly-discovered email messages or ‘conceal’ it. ‘Conceal’ is a loaded term that misstates the issue. When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.”