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On the recordSeptember 27, 2016
I think--and I am just talking for myself--that that was highly inappropriate; that, having determined that there was nothing to prosecute and having announced that quite properly, for a prosecuting agency, the Department of Justice, to comment with comments that will be looked upon as authoritative that what she did was right or wrong or good or bad is not the appropriate role of a prosecuting agency and risks, not in this case perhaps, but risks--and I talk really now because of the future.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler criticizes the DOJ's comments on a case with no prosecution.

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