Being kept informed is not remotely similar to political direction of an investigation. Tommy introduced a new statement below, apparently from O in April 2016, and I found references to it, and agree that is a boneheaded statement and a lie. Kind of a "gotcha moment" lie, because who in his right mind believes a pres is never kept apprised of federal criminal investigations, but lordy, if O was trying to provide cover for Hill in the email scandal, he sure shit the bed.

I'm much more skeptical about:

1) O in any way tried to block the investigation, which certainly helped cost Hill the election, so any interference was poorly executed at the least
2) and most importantly - the real goal here is to discredit the FBI. It is citing one example - and not even a proven one - and extrapolating out conclusions about a work force comprised of 1000s of devoted American law enforcement civil servants. I am more than skeptical about that - I am appalled by it.

Trump's demagoguery works on his fans, but not on me. In the end, I have no problem looking into the possible biases of this one investigator, or even a few, if that's the allegation. I draw no conclusions about him. I am beyond skeptical of Trumpie efforts to extrapolate and soil the rep of the entire FBI. It's shame any American accepts that.