Comey has royally screwed up! He should be standing at attention in Lynch's office. Check this out:

[Jarqui]

52. I disagree

Washington Post: The FBI had access to these emails for weeks:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-agents-knew-of-clinton-related-emails-weeks-before-director-was-briefed/2016/10/30/657ed266-9eb1-11e6-8d63-3e0a660f1f04_story.html?pushid=breaking-news_1477847865&tid=notifi_push_breaking-news

CNN: The FBI had their experts in the Clinton case look these emails over:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/30/politics/clinton-emails-fbi-abedin/index.html

Investigators from the FBI's New York field office who are conducting the Weiner investigation stumbled on the Abedin emails while they were reviewing emails and other communications on the computer, which was considered to belong to Weiner, the officials said. They stopped their work and called in the team of investigators from FBI headquarters who conducted the probe of Clinton's private email server.

Abedin's lawyers didn't respond to requests for comment.

The investigators saw enough of the emails to determine that they appeared pertinent to the previously completed investigation and that they may be emails not previously reviewed.
Because they don't have a warrant specific to Abedin's emails, officials have not been able to further examine them. Justice Department and FBI officials view Abedin as cooperative with the investigation.

FBI officials yet don't know how many of the emails are duplicates of emails they already have reviewed as part of the Clinton email server investigation and whether any of them may contain classified information.

Investigators believe it's likely the newly recovered trove will include emails that were deleted from the Clinton server before the FBI took possession of it as part of that earlier investigation.

That's Washington Post & CNN - not right wing sources.

Comey is financially set in life. He's near the end of his time at the FBI. About the only thing left for him to concern himself with is his legacy. I doubt he wants to go down in history as the jackass who threw the 2016 election.

You could spot check 100 emails in a couple of hours from that laptop and know with reasonable % how many of the 10,000 or so emails reported on that laptop they do not already have and of those, what percentage are work related or potentially classified. Comey did not rise to the top of the FBI on a career of stupidity. I'd also say he was pretty darn fair with Hillary this summer.

I have a feeling Comey knows a lot more about what they've got than he's presently saying because they need a warrant. His career and legacy is on the line. Time will tell. Try not to rush to conclusions here.