As he alluded in his moody tweet following the end of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, former FBI Director James Comey has some questions for Mueller.
Namely: Why didn’t he subpoena President Trump or make a decision on obstruction?
When asked during an interview with NBC Nightly News if Mueller’s decision to not make a call on the obstruction of justice portion of his investigation — which was partially ignited by Trump’s firing of Comey — surprised him, Comey said “it does.”
“The purpose of a special counsel is to make sure that the politicals — in this case the attorney general — doesn’t make the ultimate call on whether the subject of the investigation, the President of the United States, should be held criminally liable for activities that were under investigation,” he said. “And so the idea that a special counsel wouldn’t reach the question, and hand it to the political leadership, doesn’t make sense. I’m not prejudging it, I’m just saying it doesn’t make sense on its face. And so I have a lot of questions.”
“Do you ask yourself why Mueller did not subpoena President Trump?” NBC’s Lester Holt asked.
“Yes, I do,” Comey said. “And I don’t know the answer to that.”
