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Originally Posted by martyh
So why has the FBI opened their gob at such a crucial time ? either they are trying to influence the election or just plain incompetent
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Well that's the question.
From his point of view it's difficult: If he hasn't said anything and after the election it emerged he could have then we would be in trouble. If this turns out to be nothing he is also in trouble.
What is clear is that he shouldn't have worded the statement to congress as poorly as he did. He attempted to downplay it afterwards but the damage was done. It's also emerged he was
advised against this by the Justice Department.
However the rule about not attributing to malice that which is better explained by stupidity should suffice. At worse he has shown a desire to be in the limelight as with his press conference when the FBI brought no charges.
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Originally Posted by adzii_nufc
All this rests on Coney's shoulder, he handed out the immunity deals, but the entire FBI looked ridiculous when evidence surfaced that Clinton and co had been tampering with the evidence. Now they're re-opening it. There's pressure on him, he's made the entire FBI look ridiculous. Coney will go soon but something seriously wrong has occurred on both occasions here.
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They're reopening it because of the emergence of new e-mails. They're not revisiting the old e-mails, allegations of evidence tampering or anything else. They've found more e-mails and they're looking into it although we don't know if they involve Clinton's e-mail server nor if they even include her.
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We have the first polling from after the e-mails:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-batt...of-fbi-emails/
Not quite as bad for Clinton as first feared. People who are voting against her think it's a big deal, those voting for her do not. I think 'e-mails' are sort of priced in at this point. Clinton is ahead in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Trump in Arizona.