James Comey, the former FBI director, knew that a document crucial to the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server was fake and created by Russian intelligence, but it played a large role in how he approached the investigation, CNN reported on Friday.
The purportedly fake document, first disclosed by The New York Times in late April and described in more detail by The Washington Post on Wednesday, described an email sent by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was then the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, to an official at the billionaire George Soros' Open Society Foundations.
The memo contained a summary of the email, in which Wasserman Schultz supposedly described how Loretta Lynch, the attorney general, had privately assured a Clinton staffer during the campaign that the Justice Department wouldn't take the email probe too far.
Comey, whom President Donald Trump fired earlier this month amid the FBI's investigation into Russia's election interference, apparently doubted the veracity of the memo early. But he told lawmakers about the document in his later briefings and did not imply that it could be fake, according to CNN.
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