Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said Wednesday he "didn't buy" FBI Director James Comey's comments that no "reasonable prosecutor" could bring a case against Hillary Clinton for charges surrounding her use of a private email server, and he did not hear any reasons why she should not face an indictment.
"Mr. Comey saw the writing on the wall," Fitton told
Fox News' "Fox & Friends" program. "You could argue he saw what the Justice Department was leaking, there would be no indictment and the attorney general [Loretta Lynch] meeting with Bill Clinton last week and he was willing to put his job on the line by recommending a prosecution he knew would go nowhere with this compromise Justice Department."
Meanwhile, Comey outlined evidence of potential violations of the law repeatedly and highlighted the destruction of records, and the mishandling of classified information, "some of which was marked and the potential leaking of that or breaching of that information by foreign powers, all of which would be sort of a nice gift for any prosecutor willing to do, make the case."
Judicial Watch, which has been pushing for the release of Clinton's emails, still wants to get more of the records, said Fitton.
"Thanks to the FBI there are thousands of emails that may be available to the American people that previously hadn't been, and they should be under the Freedom of Information Act," said Fitton. "We have a pending request with the federal court judge for Mrs. Clinton's testimony, her deposition testimony. We may ask another third court judge for additional testimony from Mrs. Clinton and others. We're figuring out whether to do that. That could come this week."
But he does believe that the probe will continue well into the next presidential administration.
"There may be more than one Justice Department that takes a look at this," said Fitton. "Maybe a more honest prosecutor could take a look at it next year. We don't know. "
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