FBI Director Comey wanted to write an op-ed last summer about the so-called Russian meddling in the U.S. election, but members of the Obama administration blocked him because they wanted to release a ‘coordinated statement from multiple agencies’.

Fox News reports:

According to a new report, FBI Director James Comey was set to write an op-ed last summer about suspected Russian meddling in the U.S. election. Obama administration officials, however, blocked him from writing the piece, Newsweek reported, citing two unnamed sources. The officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson and National Security Adviser Susan Rice, reportedly preferred the message be communicated via a coordinated statement from multiple agencies.

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