Comey strikes me as a self-righteous person who wouldn't be fun to be with.

[Warren DeMontague]

109. I don't think we know the whole story. If and when we do, it's entirely possible that

Comey will come out of it looking like a villain. Totally possible.

But the one thread that seems to define the man's career arc is at least the attempt to do the right, or legally proper, thing without consideration of politics. If you remember, part of the reason Obama picked Comey in the first place, was Comey's standing up to Gonzales when Ashcroft was in the hospital and they were trying to use that to drive through approval for Bush's spying program.

Now, no, I don't think he should have released that stuff about Weiner's laptop 8 days out from the election. Didn't then, still don't. But I do think it has become clear that there was more shit circulating than we knew about at the time. Part of it may have been a desire to avoid being pegged as giving Hillary a partisan "pass" while looking ahead to the possibility of a much bigger, serious investigation into Trump turning into the major deal it appears it quite well may be. And remember, we all thought she was going to win. I'm just speculating, here.

Like I said, if and when we have all the facts and look back on it, we might go "fucking Comey, he was completely unfair and made these judgment calls that were way off base"... but right now I still don't think we know all the details.

I will say, that the big unforced error around the Clinton campaign back then (leaving aside the stupid and unnecessary server shit) was Bill Clinton meeting with Lynch on the tarmac, which led directly to her having to recuse herself. That was a goof move by someone who is certainly smart and informed enough to know better, and if it weren't for that imagine all the shit that could have been avoided.