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FBI director, James Comey, said on Tuesday that the agency was recommending against charging Hillary Clinton in her use of a private email server while secretary of state. (Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
FBI Director James Comey said his office is not recommending prosecutors to bring charges against Hillary Clinton<\/a> for her handling of classified information in connection to private email servers.<\/p>\n \u201cAlthough the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this, we are expressing to Justice our view that no charges are appropriate in this case,\u201d Comey said Tuesday.<\/p>\n While Comey criticized Clinton and her aides for being \u201cextremely careless\u201d in handling classified information, he said there is no evidence she intended to do so, which is the basis for criminal charges.<\/p>\n Here are five fast facts to know about Comey:<\/p>\n James Comey was the United States Deputy Attorney General, serving in President George W. Bush\u2019s administration. (Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Comey is a registered Republican who donated to U.S. Senator John McCain\u2019s campaign in the 2008 presidential election and to Governor Mitt Romney\u2019s campaign in the 2012 presidential election.<\/p>\n Comey reported a net worth of more than $11 million<\/a> in documents filed with the Senate when he was nominated for FBI Director in 2013. He listed about $5 million in stocks, according the CNN. Their investments include a Schwab government money fund, Exxon Mobil, Pepsico, Berkshire Hathaway, Verizon Communications, Proctor & Gamble Co. and Hormel Foods.<\/p>\n At the time, Comey and his wife, Patrice also reported ownership of a home worth an estimated $3 million in Westport, Connecticut.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In June of 2013, President Barack Obama went beyond the political norm to select a former Bush appointed Republican as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Comey has been consistent in his financial support of Republicans John McCain and Mitt Romney in their bids for President.<\/p>\n Comey\u2019s appointment came just a few months after the Benghazi attacks.<\/p>\n \u201cI think folks don\u2019t understand that the FBI operates under a wide variety of constraints,\u201d Comey testified during his confirmation hearing to succeed Robert Mueller as the second director of the bureau since 9\/11.<\/p>\n \u201cI can only say with confidence that it\u2019s very important for the next director to continue the transformation of the FBI into an intelligence agency,\u201d Comey said.<\/p>\n Comey was confirmed by the Senate on July 29, 2013, for a full ten-year term running the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was sworn in as FBI director on September 4, 2013.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hxHjWYA50Ds<\/p>\n Comey dramatically pushed back the Bush administration over the reauthorization of the warrantless domestic surveillance program, which led to him drafting a letter of resignation in 2004. The letter was never sent.<\/p>\n During his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2007, Comey summarized the events that led to the resignation threat.<\/p>\n Comey was serving as acting attorney general in March 2004 while then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was hospitalized and gravely ill with pancreatitis.<\/p>\n Due to Ashcroft\u2019s illness, Comey, who was then deputy attorney general, temporarily became in charge of the Justice Department. After he refused to re-authorize a secret National Security Agency warrantless wiretap program that the Justice Department\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel determined was illegal, two top Bush aides \u2014 Andrew Card and Alberto Gonzales \u2014 headed to the hospital to try to convince Ashcroft to sign off. Comey, who had been tipped off, quickly arrived to the hospital room, just minutes before the White House officials.<\/p>\n \u201cI had witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very sick man,\u201d Comey told senators during his 2007 testimony. \u201cI prepared a letter intending to resign. \u2026 I couldn\u2019t stay if the White House was engaging in conduct that had no legal basis.\u201d<\/p>\n In Comey\u2019s drafted resignation letter<\/a>, which was published by The Washington Post<\/em>, he said \u201cthe Justice Department and I have been asked to be part of something that is fundamentally wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n Shortly after, Comey privately met with Bush, who agreed to \u201cdo the right thing, and put the program on a footing that we could certify its legality,\u201d Comey testified.<\/p>\n US President Barack Obama arrives alongside new FBI Director James Comey (2nd R), Comey\u2019s wife, Patrice Failor (R), and FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce (L) during an installation ceremony at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC, October 28, 2013. (Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Comey and his wife Patrice are the parents of five children: Maurene, Katherine, Brien, Claire and Abby.<\/p>\n Comey says he and Patrice Failor met as college freshmen at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, where he majored in chemistry and religion.<\/p>\n After his first year of law school in 1983, he visited Patrice in Sierra Leone, where she was serving in the Peace Corps. He came down with malaria. She acted quickly and got Comey to a hospital, which saved his life.<\/p>\n The two married in 1987, and moved from New York to Richmond in 1993, seeking a more quiet location for raising their family.<\/p>\n \u201cWe wanted to live in a place where we\u2019d both be happier raising our kids. She knew northern Virginia, because she\u2019d grown up there and in Iowa, but we liked Richmond as a place to live.\u201d<\/p>\n The Comeys suffered a personal tragedy in 1995, when their 9-day-old son, Collin, died from a bacterial infection.<\/p>\n Comey and his wife are members of Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church in Washington.<\/p>\n Comey worked as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York where he served as lead prosecutor in the Martha Stewart insider trading case. (Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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\n2. He Was Appointed as Director of FBI by President Obama<\/h2>\n
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3. Comey Disputed the Bush Administration\u2019s Wiretapping Program<\/h2>\n
\n4. Comey Has Been Married to His Wife, Patrice for 29 Years<\/h2>\n
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\n5. Comey Has Led High-Profile Prosecutions<\/h2>\n
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