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<p style="font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;">“So if the Attorney General or senior officials at the Department of Justice opposes a specific investigation, can they halt that FBI investigation?” Hirono asked.

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<p style="font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;">“In theory yes,” Comey answered.

<p style="font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;">“Has it happened? Hirono asked.


<p style="font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;">“Not in my experience,” Comey responded. “Because it would be a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing something that — without an appropriate purpose.”

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<p style="font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;">“I mean where oftentimes they give us opinions that we don’t see a case there, and so you ought to stop investing resources in it,” Comey said. “But I’m talking about a situation where we were told to stop something for a political reason, that would be a very big deal.


<p style="font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:medium;">“It’s not happened in my experience,” Comey said.


 

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