Rising scrutiny of James Comey
By Callum Borchers
October 31 at 10:14 AM
... So little is known about the nature of emails discovered on a computer shared by Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her husband, Anthony Weiner, that it is unclear how — if at all — they might affect a probe the FBI said was finished in July. And with so little time left in the campaign, clarity seems unlikely to come before Election Day.
Thus much of the news coverage at the start of the final, full week of campaigning centers on Comey-related questions: Why did he make public his decision to reopen the Clinton email investigation? When did the FBI know about Clinton-related emails on the Abedin-Weiner computer? Did Comey violate government policy — or even the law — by delivering a status update to Congress on Friday? ...
George Will called the latest development a “content-less October surprise” on “Fox News Sunday.” “The duty of the FBI is to investigate, and when it thinks it has concluded an investigation to pass its conclusion on to the prosecutorial arm of the Department of Justice, not to write letters to the legislative branch of government,” he added.
Fox News Channel commentator Jeanine Pirro, a former judge, said over the weekend that Comey's public move “disgraces and politicizes” the FBI. “The Justice Department and the FBI's policy to not comment publicly about politically sensitive investigations within 60 days of an election exists for a very important reason,” she said. “Announcements so close to elections have an impact. … The FBI director should not now be front and center” ...
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