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Mon Oct 31, 2016, 11:01 PM Oct 2016

Ex-AGs Alberto Gonzales, Eric Holder, Michael Mukasey rip FBI director

By David Wright and Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 9:04 PM ET, Mon October 31, 2016

Republican former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday ... called Comey's actions an "error in judgment" and said he is "somewhat perplexed about what the director was trying to accomplish here" ...

Former Attorney General Eric Holder ... said Comey's letter to Congress announcing a review of the new emails was "a stunning breach" of law enforcement protocol and one that carried "potentially severe implications" during a presidential campaign ...

Former US attorney general Michael Mukasey slammed Comey Monday .... "This wasn't Comey's call. It is not his function as director of the FBI to decide who gets charges and doesn't. It's his function to gather evidence. And he didn't fulfill that function very well," Mukasey told CNN's Erin Burnett on "Erin Burnett OutFront." "But it's certainly not his function to get up and pronounce on whether charges should be brought or whether a reasonable prosecutor would ever bring them" ...


http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/31/politics/eric-holder-op-ed-rips-comey-letter/

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