So, FBI Director James Comey, the most controversial government official in America, was back before Congress today, explaining why he dropped a political bombshell on the Hillary Clinton campaign eleven days before the election. His testimony came the day after Clinton re-emerged to blame Comey for her election loss, explaining, “I was on the way to winning until a combination of Jim Comey’s letter on October 28 and Russian WikiLeaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but were scared off.”
Comey, asked about the letter, defended it in passionate terms. First, he explained that on October 27, his investigative team notified him that they had found “thousands of Secretary Clinton’s emails” on the personal computer of alleged child pornography suspect Anthony Weiner, and that those emails included “what they thought might be the missing emails from her first three months.” So, why did Comey then go public with that news, rather than determining whether or not the laptop contained such damning material?
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