Sessions as AG raises stakes for Comey, Clinton

Donald Trump’s selection of Sen. Jeff Session as his attorney general pick raises the stakes for FBI Director James Comey and Hillary Clinton, who have both been targets of Session’s ire.

Sessions said last month he'd lost confidence in Comey, according to a Breitbart account of his comments, and urged an investigation into the agency's approach to the Clinton email probe, which wrapped without charges against Clinton for how she handled classified materials through her private server while she was secretary of state.


A Breitbart account of Sessions' comments — which he made in an interview with Boston-based conservative radio host Howie Carr — suggest that Sessions would be unlikely to coexist with the controversial FBI leader, whose agency would fall under the purview of the next attorney general.

Sessions took the FBI to task in the interview, suggesting that its decision to grant attorney-client status to top Clinton aide Cheryl Mills was highly questionable and that the agency appeared to be complicit in a cover-up.

“This is scary to me,” Sessions said, according to the report. “I tried not to be critical of Comey at first.”

Sessions, in the interview, argued that Clinton, with the aid of Mills, had destroyed records under a Congressional subpoena.

“I am telling you that every business knows that if they get a subpoena for business records, and they destroy those records, they are subject to criminal prosecution and will be prosecuted,” Sessions said. “That’s a high prosecution case.”

Trump has long promised to appoint a special prosecutor to go after Clinton should he win the presidency, but in his first post-election interview with CBS' "60 Minutes," he suggested he might back off that pledge. He's also repeatedly declared her "guilty" of crimes and suggested the FBI's decision to clear her was proof of a rigged system.

Sessions has been noncommittal on the issue of prosecuting Clinton.

