WaPo - The FBI’s October surprise just made Hillary Clinton’s awful week even worse

[TomCADem]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-fbi%E2%80%99s-october-surprise-just-made-hillary-clinton%E2%80%99s-awful-week-even-worse/ar-AAjxwS9

Between Obamacare's rising premiums and the revelations of access-peddling by a top aide at the Clinton Foundation, this hasn't been a good week for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. But the news — announced Friday afternoon — that the FBI would be conducting a new investigation into the private email server Clinton used as secretary of state takes her bad week into truly terrible territory.

Here's what we know (and it's, admittedly, not all that much): The FBI came across emails related to Clinton's server as part of an “unrelated investigation,” according to a letter sent by Director James B. Comey to congressional leaders Friday. “I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation,” Comey wrote.

Here's what we don't: Is this simply box-checking because of a handful of emails that were recently found? Or is this a re-examination of the whole shebang?

The answers to those two questions are, of course, critical. Information is decidedly limited right now. We do know that the new emails were found on a computer seized during the FBI's sexting investigation of former congressman Anthony Weiner, on a computer used jointly by Weiner and his wife, Clinton aide Huma Abedin. But Comey's letter said the messages still had to be assessed to see whether they contained any classified information, or had any relevance to the Clinton email investigation.

[Dem2]

1. Thanks for dumping this negative garbage here

We need more negativity here tonight.

[Blue Idaho]

7. Dude's a buzz kill that's for sure...

I'm sure his motives are as pure as the driven snow.

[Happyhippychick]

9. And the proof of that is another thread he posted above

[Blue Idaho]

11. We will know him by his works... nt.

[redstateblues]

32. Funny how he never responds after he drops a turd in the punch bowl

[Demsrule86]

37. Yep...headed for ignore.

This is an attack. Let's hope someone notices.

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. TomCAdem's throwing a party but it won't matter

[still_one]

5. well, I am not having a good time. I hope Comey is taken to task on this

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Save it for somebody who finds you credible

[still_one]

8. Then put me on ignore if it bothers ya bud

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Nah

Deal with it.

[still_one]

13. ok, I will.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. I see you

[Demsrule86]

39. Hit and run!

[alcibiades_mystery]

42. Dude knows people know

Runs straight back to JPR to laugh about the "losers" at DU.

Will not show up here on Election Night guaranteed.

[Demsrule86]

43. Yes he does...I don't even know how he has managed to last here.

[Tom Rivers]

3. *YAWN*

[Avalux]

4. Ummm....Hillary did not have a bad week. No matter how much they say it. n/t

[Fast Walker 52]

15. Cillizza is indeed an ass

[MADem]

17. That was a BAD hide--whoever alerted on it should be embarassed.

The poster (no idea who it was--I was on the jury and came looking for the post after I finished) was plainly calling Cillizza, not the OP, a shithead.

The person who alerted on that post should write to the admins and explain their mistake and get the post reinstated.

[Fast Walker 52]

18. yeah... I've seen a lot of bad alerts lately. A lot of misunderstanding going on.

[Cha]

22. And, the person who got a hide can appeal!

I've gotten a hide before when I was calling the person the op was talking about something not nice and of course the alerter and the jury thought it was about the OP.

That was before appeals.

[arthritisR_US]

27. Appeals are a joke, trust me.

[Fast Walker 52]

14. fuck that shit... just the media trying to make it a close race

[Coyotl]

19. How many Trump sexual assualt victims make for a bad week for Clinton?

Anything less than four a week is a bad week, right?

Former Miss Finland is 12th woman to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault

[underthematrix]

20. This will not have any effect on my family's vote for her

It's just makes us more determined.

But here's what I don't understand. When the FBI interviewed Huma, they must have asked her for ALL her email addresses and to ID all devices that she used to send or receive emails. This means they should have SEEN all emails sent from one email address to another. According to a reporter on the LAST WORD, Huma would forward emails from her State Dept email to her personal email to print from a home laptop for HRC because the State printers were a pain to use.

Anthony W. would not be able to see her email account unless he had her password. If she logged onto the Clinton server from the laptop they shared, he wouldn't have access unless he had her password. I just don't see Huma sharing that info with her hubby.

[LisaL]

21. FBI already knew all that based on what I read.

They did ask her and she did tell them.

[underthematrix]

23. so if they already knew all this,

what's the issue?

[LisaL]

24. We don't even know if those emails have anything to do with anything.

They could all be duplicates of what FBI already has. So I really can't say what the issue is.

[Cha]

25. Bullshite on cillizza.. Hillary's been having an excellent week.. and

why you want to post this crap, Tom?

[Demsrule86]

35. Not hard to understand.

[Lord Magus]

26. "Awful week" in which she's continued to stomp Trump into the ground?

And it's time for AG Lynch to call a grand jury to indict Comey for his violations of the Hatch Act.

[arthritisR_US]

28. What is the Hatch Act? Never mind, just found it.:)

[Lord Magus]

29. It prohibits executive branch employees from engaging in political activities.

Comey's attempt to create an October surprise qualifies.

[arthritisR_US]

30. I agree. Why aren't the media addressing this FFS?

[Lord Magus]

31. Because the media has always hated the Clintons.

And they desperately want this to be a close race rather than a blowout.

[arthritisR_US]

33. They want their $ not the good of the masses...

[Demsrule86]

34. Here is what I know... this is a negative post that shoul never have been posted...it is an attack

on our candidate and reveals much.

[DFW]

40. WTF is happening to American journalism?

"Here's what we know (and it's, admittedly, not all that much)"

Then WAIT UNTIL YOU KNOW MORE BEFORE PUBLISHING AN OPINION ON IT!!!!

Didn't ANYONE at the Post go to journalism school?

Oh, and by the way, I'll bet Trump just WISHES he had a week as "horrible" as Hillary's.

[Monk06]

41. Shaddap !!! Jebbus fucking pants on fire nervous nellies Cut back on your doobage and and

the Red Bull and Schnapps shooters and get some sleep

Maybe lay off the meth while your at it