Washington Post (if you get the paywall, hit ESC as it loads);
The matter of the Weiner laptop emails has been debated publicly for more than a year, in part because many Clinton supporters say the FBI tilted the 2016 race toward Donald Trump when it announced in late October that it was reopening its probe into Clinton’s use of a private email server when she served as secretary of state.
Key parts of what went into that decision have remained murky and are a major focus of the inspector general’s probe, according to people familiar with the matter.
In late September 2016, FBI agents in New York were investigating Weiner for possible Internet crimes involving a teenage girl. In the course of that probe, they discovered that his laptop contained thousands of work emails belonging to Weiner’s then-wife, Huma Abedin. Abedin was a longtime aide to Clinton, and agents wanted to know whether the emails in question might shed new light on the Clinton investigation, which had been closed in July without any charges.
The New York FBI office alerted FBI headquarters to the new email issue within days — accounts differ as to when precisely, but McCabe was aware of the matter by late September or early October at the latest, according to the people familiar with the matter. The agents on the Weiner case wanted to talk to the Clinton email investigators and see whether the messages were potentially important. Some people familiar with the matter said officials at FBI headquarters asked the New York agents to analyze the emails’ metadata — the sender, recipient and times of the messages — to see whether they seemed relevant to the closed probe.
McCabe was involved in those discussions, but there are differing accounts about how much then-FBI Director James B. Comey understood about the matter in the early days of October.
An attorney for Comey could not immediately be reached for comment.
So, I think we know why Comey “reopened” the Clinton investigation just days before the election — self-preservation.
I saw this article a couple hours ago. Without doubt it is an indication that whistle-blowers/rank-and-file are starting to talk off the record. Expect more, soon, especially after the memo comes out in a few days.
And notice this wording: “The Justice Department’s inspector general has been focused for months on why Andrew McCabe, as the No. 2 official at the FBI, appeared not to act for about three weeks on a request to examine a batch of Hillary Clinton-related emails found in the latter stages of the 2016 election campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.”
Not “why A.M. didn’t act on the emails, or announce a re-opening of the investigation, or anything very “active.” He refuse even “to examine” the emails, which is the basic minimum the public should expect of the Federal Bureau of INVESTIGATION. But once you call an investigation a “matter,” there’s no need to trouble yourself with it.
I still understand nothing of this BS story unless I accept:
1. Major players in the FBI & DOJ are corrupt.
2. They want to pretend they aren’t.
FYI, if you want to get past the paywall, open an incognito tab in Chrome and then copy and paste the link there.
I’m not sure I agree with the self-preservation theory…or more specifically, I think it is of a different stripe. I’m betting that Hillary was so confident of a win that she issued instructions directly to Comey to get it out in the open, “evaluated”, and exonerated so that she could enter as the high exalted new madame president with (in her mind) no baggage.
Comey followed orders (under the guise of self-preservation)…or more accurately, continued preservation in the position of power he so loved and abused. He really does suck at public statements….and it showed.
This is a good one from Victor Davis Hanson-
Hillary’s ‘Sure’ Victory Explains Most Everything http://bit.ly/2nlliup
Please allow me to summarize the commitment CNN has been demonstrating on covering this emerging scandal…
HEY!! You people aren’t supposed to be talking about this stuff! Look, over there, over there, look!….. Trump/Russia Conspiracy, Trump/Russia Conspiracy, Trump/Russia Conspiracy, Trump/Russia Conspiracy, Trump/Russia Conspiracy. Don’t let Trump and his evil minions distract you, stay focused! Trump/Russia Conspiracy, Trump/Russia Conspiracy, Trump/Russia Conspiracy.
The BIG question now seems to be… Will there EVER be any recognition of the political left’s multiple crimes by the MSM?
Wow. In a court with a good to great prosecutor a lot of people are going to do time.