Good time to keep things in perspective then, as others mentioned there is no clue if this email issue is significant.
Now, about Trump significant flaws with the law:
[More in the USA Today article]
Yeah, the issues are so numerous that the article has chapters. 
Comey did what he had to by informing Congress. Facts changed that possibly could alter his sworn testimony. That said, didn’t anyone else find it incredible that he had to notify eight (8 !!) committee chairmen? That many “investigations” (witch hunts) of Hillary?
Good grief.
Well, he didn’t want the FBI to be open to accusations of a ‘cover up’ with whatever constitutional nonsense the GOP would troll with for literally years. It seems to make absolute sense for the FBI, in seemingly doing the correct thing, to take the hit now.
This is obv something they would have pondered very long and very hard, and then pondered some more. At the end of the day, as Director these are the calls you get paid to make.
tbh, I’m trying to figure out what HRC did wrong in principle. I guess the FBI are rightly interested in the actual content.
Did Comey “go rogue”? Numerous articles suggesting that Justice/Lynch was very clear on their policy about this sort of thing, and he ignored it. Did he even tell Lynch what he was up to? Was he supposed to?
One of several, pretty much the same.
As others have said, we are in unprecedented territory.
We’ve never had a Presidential candidate under criminal investigation only days before the election.
Can you imagine the “oh shit” moment when investigators found this material on Weiner and Huma’s shared laptop?
This had to be reported up the chain of command. All the way to the Director of the FBI. I wouldn’t want to be the low level agent bringing that bad news to my supervisor.
This could end a lot of careers if it’s much ado about nothing. That’s why I think they have already checked some of those emails.
Yes, he did, but not in person: Attorney general disagreed with FBI director's decision to alert Congress to Hillary Clinton-related emails - CBS News
And to Ms. Lynch? She’s in the mix there somewhere, right?
I didn’t know this adaher … I bet a lot of others didn’t know this that say the FBI director is going to be out of there when either party wins.
Good point … I would flag this post as very important to the future, but SD doesn’t have a way to flag the best posts, do they?
If the statements I have heard are accurate and these E-mails are not to or from Hillary’s server, and that only a handful are pertinent to the case, I would guess that the handful of messages reveal something about intent or knowledge that the FBI did not know before. Perhaps a letter from or to Huma specifically saying they were trying to avoid FOIA requests, or an explicit order from her to have certain hard drives wiped, or something like that. Perhaps it’s evidence that someone like Huma or Cheryl Mills perjured themselves under questioning, and it’s not even directly about Hillary.
But if these emails were pertinent enough to warrant this public disclosure but not actually part of the e-mail collection that’s been the focus of the investigation, they must bring some kind of new information to the case. That’s my spitballing guess, anyway, and since none of us know what’s in them, guessing is all we can do.
I’m not really sure.
I think the FBI Director is independent from the AG? Obviously they have a close working relationship. But AFAIK the AG is not the FBI Directors boss.
Maybe others with more information can clarify.
Sam? Comey says he doesn’t know.
My opinion is that you guessed wrong.
When the facts come out, then we’ll see… won’t we?
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Comey was very careful to leave himself the possibility of coming back in twelve days and saying, “Yeah, sorry - turns out they were swapping Twilight fanfics. Never mind!”
I don’t see how blocking FOIA requests could have anything to do with it. Pretty much all departments do that to some degree and that issue wasn’t part of the investigation, afaik.
The idea that they might have found an email saying “make sure you destroy those files before the FBI gets them” is pretty much fantasy land speculation. You say that shit in person not over email.
I’m surprised Hillary didn’t dump/distance herself from Huma at the very first sign of trouble from that asshole Weiner. 
Trump spokesman says that the stuff must be serious evidence because…wait for it!..otherwise Comey wouldn’t have released it like he did!
No, please, keep going. I enjoy posts that start off with “I don’t know how this works” and then go on to explain how things work, only to conclude with “I hope someone else knows how this works.”
There’s a good chance some of Hillary’s missing emails will be found on Huma’s laptop. Hillary testified to Congress that only personal emails were deleted from her personal server.
It could be very incriminating if that laptop has work related emails that weren’t previously turned over to the FBI.
A few discrepancies could be explained away as honest mistakes. More than that might indicate something much more serious.
I’m starting to understand how Trump can prosper when people who have factual information right in front of them on their computer screens still think this, and even write about it.
You just have to wonder WTF is going on. Is there some kind of mass pollution of the population?
The attorney general is the head of the Department of Justice and the FBI is one of the law enforcement agencies within the DOJ. The FBI director reports to the Chief Deputy Attorney General (essentially the XO of the DOJ) and also reports to the Director of National Intelligence, given the FBI’s counter-terrorism and counter-espionage functions. But, Comey has some job security since he, like the AG, was appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, but for a 10 year term in 2013. So, if he were given an order by the AG, he would likely be expected to obey, but it appears he was merely advised and not ordered not to notfiy Congress and Comey appears to have thought he had an obligation to do so anyway given his earlier testimony and public recommendation on the matter.