What would happen if Hillary were to loudly and often start to voice how she was cheated, which she

[karynnj]

29. Never before had a candidate had the State Department IG and the Intelligence Community IG

appointed by an administration of the nominee's own party recommended and investigation and investigated themselves. Hillary's numbers on honest and trustworthy sank as she dealt poorly with the issue of her emails before the FBI started to investigate. Much of the damage was done by June 2015. (In March 2015, we learned that she used a private server and left the State Department without the emails they needed to produce for Congress and FOIA. The State Department "negotiated" with HRC to get them returned in late 2014.)

Bill Clinton, privately meeting with the AG as that investigation was nearing its end made things worse - as it compromised Lynch. It directly led to Lynch saying she would accept the FBI's recommendation - leading to Comey announcing the findings rather than simply reporting them to the AG to announce. That led to Comey being called before Congress and promising to report if anything changed.

I think Comey erred in sending that letter to Congress, where it was promptly and predictably leaked. At minimum, he should have prioritized getting computer experts to quickly extract any new emails and (given how few there ended up being) checking them out. All without a word to Congress. Had there been any bombshell, he would still have been able to get it out before the election - eliminating any reason to favor the path he took.

Clinton knew that there was nothing wrong in the emails. There were requests for them in her last year as Secretary of State. All she had to do was to leave the work email with the State Department when she left. As it was, the House and Senate BOTH asked about the email requests every time Kerry or an under secretary came to Congress. This was an untenable situation - and it blew up in her face. The most galling thing was that there was not anything she had to cover up! Both Congressional oversight and FOIA - even by people we do not like - are important to an open, transparent government.

It is absolutely terrible that a well qualified, intelligent public servant lost this election because of the series of her email decisions that led to this. That it allowed an unqualified sociopath to win makes this even worse. While it is fair to blame Comey's letter, none of this would have happened had Hillary Clinton not made a terrible choice on her emails. Also blame Bill Clinton's inexplicable action or even the leaders of the Democratic party for not quickly understanding how badly this was hurting her.