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What part of not part of the FBI's mandate do you not understand. I suggest you read the Rosenstein Comey memo.
If you do you will find.
Former Attorney General Mukasey, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Attorney General Eric Holder, former Deputy Attorney Generals Judge Laurence Silberman, Gorelick, Thompson, and Ayer ALL heavily criticized Comey's decision to usurp the position of the DOJ and to make the decision on whether or not to prosecute HRC.
That wasn't the FBI job to decide.
Rosenstein's memo was essentially him disagreeing with who should have made the public announcement concerning the findings on the Hillary email investigation. There's nothing concerning a "mandate" mentioned in his memo. He speaks of the AG's authority being usurped as far as the FBI Director making the decision to close a case without prosecution, but he also makes it clear that the FBI is the investigating body within the DoJ. Furthermore, Rosenstein complains that Comey didn't follow established procedure where the AG has a "conflict of interest" in federal investigations and that's where his disagreement with Comey making his public announcement truly lay. Otherwise, there's no "mandate" that I can see; just a customary breach in protocol although from my reading of Ms. Page's testimony in light of Rosenstein's memo I'd say there was no breach but rather people who believed Comey took this extraordinary step on his own. I'd think if that were the case, AG Lynch would have stepped in and recounted Comey's statement/understanding of events in a public statement of her own. Since that didn't happen...:shrug:
As for the FBI deciding if there was sufficient evidence to charge Hillary with a crime, per Lisa Page's testimony both the FBI and the DoJ were in agreement on that point. So, there was no arbitrary decision made by the FBI not to indict.
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