# FBI is re-opening investigation into Clinton's email **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 28, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950 "2016-10-28T17:57:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 39
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/761 "2016-11-06T21:00:55Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > I’m truly ashamed that I spent the better part of four minutes trying to imagine what this might sound like. > ETA: It’s been a long few weeks. Blow up a balloon and pull the neck sideways as the balloon deflates. Almost entirely unlike that. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/762 "2016-11-06T21:03:28Z")
So the “scandal” that had Republicans masturbating about for 9 days was nothing. If only Comey had kept his yap shut in the first place, we could have put this election to bed a week ago. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/763 "2016-11-06T21:08:27Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > So the “scandal” that had Republicans masturbating about for 9 days was nothing. If only Comey had kept his yap shut in the first place, we could have put this election to bed a week ago. But then Comey’s “retirement fund” would not be so fullsome. I hope he got cash up front, rather than a promise to pay. Trump has recently [stiffed his own polling company,](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/31/donald-trump-is-refusing-to-pay-his-campaign-pollster-nearly-three-quarters-of-a-million-dollars/) so I would not count on him to pay his bills. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/764 "2016-11-06T21:10:00Z")
Another example of electile dysfunction. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/765 "2016-11-06T21:12:45Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > So the “scandal” that had Republicans masturbating about for 9 days was nothing. If only Comey had kept his yap shut in the first place, we could have put this election to bed a week ago. Yep–and that’s nine days’ worth of early voting that could’ve been affected due to this irresponsible behavior. Getting the news as late as the Sunday before the election is pretty frickin’ infuriating. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/766 "2016-11-06T21:16:43Z")
> [@choie](#): > > Yep–and that’s nine days’ worth of early voting that could’ve been affected due to this irresponsible behavior. Getting the news as late as the Sunday before the election is pretty frickin’ infuriating. I hope Senator Franken gets his way, and there is a full Senate investigating into Comey and the FBI, as well as into the claims by Guliani that the Trump campaign was being fed information by current or retired FBI agents. At the very least, Comey has no control over his staff. I would also call for a deeper investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence agencies. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/767 "2016-11-06T21:21:05Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Well, I’ve heard numbers between 80,000 and 200,000 emails on the Weiner laptop, so I doubt if they’ve all been looked through yet. Still… They don’t actually read all of them, one by one. They process the files with software calibrated to find whatever could be evidence, and then examine what comes up. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/768 "2016-11-06T21:22:24Z")
But what does this letter even mean? Did he say they looked, and didn’t find anything? Did he say they haven’t looked yet, so nothing is different? Did they look at all 6 million e-mails, all of which contained the letter “c”? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/769 "2016-11-06T21:23:52Z")
So is Comey going to finish out the year or “resign” in a week or two? Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/770 "2016-11-06T21:26:58Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > But what does this letter even mean? Did he say they looked, and didn’t find anything? Did he say they haven’t looked yet, so nothing is different? Did they look at all 6 million e-mails, all of which contained the letter “c”? The news accounts I’ve seen are saying the emails on the Wiener laptop were almost all duplicates of emails the Feebs had already seen. So calling them ‘new’ emails initially was inaccurate. Comey is an ass. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/771 "2016-11-06T21:28:58Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > So the “scandal” that had Republicans masturbating about for 9 days was nothing. There just wasn’t enough to work with. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/772 "2016-11-06T21:34:15Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > So is Comey going to finish out the year or “resign” in a week or two? There’s no way he can get his credibility back, so yes, it’s a question only of When. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/773 "2016-11-06T21:58:26Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > But what does this letter even mean? Did he say they looked, and didn’t find anything? Did he say they haven’t looked yet, so nothing is different? Did they look at all 6 million e-mails, all of which contained the letter “c”? I believe the thinking was “Well, enough damage has been done to Clinton, now let’s cover our ass with a couple days to go, and admit there was nothing there. When does my cheque arrive?” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/774 "2016-11-06T23:01:41Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I believe the thinking was “Well, enough damage has been done to Clinton, now let’s cover our ass with a couple days to go, and admit there was nothing there. When does my cheque arrive?” On the hearings investigating this fiasco in the future: A recording of a conversation is revealed: Trump in a FBI recording: “Well Mr. Comey, the check is in the mail…” Expert testifying: "Just before hanging up there was an unintelligible word from Trump. Our forensic experts managed to reconstruct what he said: [tape plays] “ **sucker!!!** ” ---
**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/775 "2016-11-06T23:02:13Z")
It is very puzzling to watch this from afar - how could it be possible to tolerate the intervention directly by the security services in the election? I wonder if all the voices in this thread confidently stating that there must have been something to merit the announcement will come back to acknowledge wrongness? Whatever the results of your election, there is something dangerously wrong that occured inside the security services, very dangerously wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/776 "2016-11-06T23:18:45Z")
> [@choie](#): > > That sound you hear is millions of boners that had been pointing in Comey’s direction, all wilting in defeat. Sad! Worst. Circle. Jerk. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/777 "2016-11-06T23:21:24Z")
The Trump line, now being echoed by former Chief of the NYPD and director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, is that Comey could not possibly have reviewed all these emails. That is, of course, absolute tripe. In fact, it should make you angry that idiots like these have held such high levels of responsibility. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/778 "2016-11-06T23:27:21Z")
So, to recap: the FBI finds the emails in late September or early October. They sit on their hands for at least two, if not three weeks. Then Comey sends the letter to Congress, despite not yet knowing the contents of the emails. Then the FBI gets the subpoena to actually open the emails. Now, 9 days later, he admits that there’s jack shit here. I do not understand how Comey can possibly continue in his role after bungling this so badly. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/779 "2016-11-07T00:09:27Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Another example of electile dysfunction. Where’s [Smilin’ Enztye Bob](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AMX21VKv97w/SJzkCQd-T7I/AAAAAAAACo8/UohM2CIs-kM/s320/enzyte.jpg) when you need him? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950/780 "2016-11-07T00:21:28Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > So the “scandal” that had Republicans masturbating about for 9 days was nothing. Now there’s a lot of ‘red’ voters out there with a bad case of blue balls. ;)😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-is-re-opening-investigation-into-clintons-email/769950.md?page=40)