2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Comey has royally screwed up! He should be standing at attention in Lynch's office. Check this out: [View all]Jarqui
(10,123 posts)and he may not. A lot of facts have to come out before we can really render that judgement. There's probably a bunch he has not told us yet about why he did what he did - in part because he's gained knowledge about evidence he didn't have a warrant for yet. I'm not going to pass judgement without a bunch of the key facts behind his actions. I do not believe this was politically motivated. It's convenient for us Dems to hope for that and I wish it were true but having followed Comey and this email thing, I'm not convinced yet.
"Careless" was about as nice a way as he could put it this summer. Given 2/3rds of the country thought she should have been charged, he was on the hot seat to explain why he didn't - which was an extraordinary position in the wake of all the media and Bill quietly meeting one on one with AG Lynch on a tarmac (bad optics).
People do things for a reason. I do not think Comey has been that dominated by politics his whole career. I think those Clinton email FBI experts he sent up to NY to look at that laptop probably told him they had something in that evidence that prompted him to act as he has. He's really stuck his neck out otherwise and he's not a stupid guy.
I could easily be wrong - just like anyone else theorizing what was behind his letter. Time will tell. In the interim, I'm not rushing to pass judgement until we know more of the story.