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Douglas Charles, associate professor of history at Penn State Greater Allegheny, was quoted recently in a MSN/Vox.com article about the FBI and presidential elections. Here’s an excerpt:

“’His actions were unprecedented, unethical, shocking, and have apparently led to chaos within the bureau, an unprecedented number of leaks, and chaos in our election cycle,’ said Douglas Charles, a history professor at Penn State.

“Charles, the author of a book about J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, said Comey has a long history with the Clintons that may have left him with a ‘personal grudge or underlying or subsumed political motive’ to try to derail Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.

“He noted that Comey had helped probe the 1990s-era Whitewater real estate scandal, which focused heavily on Hillary Clinton’s financial dealings and willingness to fully cooperate with investigators, and oversaw the Marc Rich prosecution in the late 1980s. (Comey said he was ‘stunned’ by Bill Clinton’s decision to pardon the financier.)”

Read more at MSN.com.