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Does anyone know if Comey was compelled to write the letter? I'm reading from multiple sources that he has a responsibility to avoid public announcements of this type And he's actually forbidden to discuss on going investigations until they're complete.
It would change my view (that he is a hack trying to influence the election) if he had to write the letter and congress decided to make it public for obvious political reasons. Of course this non story would make them and the media hacks for making it way bigger than it is.
I read an article from a lawyer who's also a political commentator that if Comey didn't inform congress of the re-opening of Hillary's investigation, it would have been in conflict of a few things he said under oath when he testified to congress the days after announcing there ould not be an indictment.
And besides that, he was in a fucked-if-you-do-fucked-if-you-don't situation. If he waited until after the election he has been investigating Hillary the last two weeks, that would be a media firestorm against him, rather than Hillary.
One last thing before I hit the sack, Comey knew the huge firestorm this is and he wouldn't have made this announcement, in the highest peak of the election season, if whatever evidence he now has is damming to Hillary.
Or, rather, that's just a theory. But it's doubtful he would have done this about new emails about yoga and Chelsea's wedding.
But, possibly it is.