
oh, the politics are strong with this one. fbi director james comey just sent out a letter to the republican congressional committee informing them that the fbi will be looking into more of hillary clinton<u+2019>s emails. the discovery of the new emails was <u+201c>in connection with an unrelated case.<u+201d> 




as think progress points out, all the letter really means is there are emails that were discovered that the fbi had not reviewed. it doesn<u+2019>t mean a case is being <u+201c>re-opened.<u+201d> this does not say the fbi will be reexamining the information of the previous investigation. and, it doesn<u+2019>t mean that all of a sudden criminal charges are going to be forthcoming. it means nothing, except, the fbi needs to read a few more emails that were missed in the previous investigation. 




even comey says in his letter: 




<u+201c>the fbi cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant.<u+201d> 




read republican james comey<u+2019>s letter, here: 




yet, the reality of this statement is lost on not only major media outlets who are reporting that the case has been <u+201c>reopened,<u+201d> but also our politicians. paul ryan<u+2019>s response takes the cake, though. the republican speaker of the house went full knee-jerk with this one. he said in a statement : 




<u+201c>yet again, hillary clinton has nobody but herself to blame. she was entrusted with some of our nation<u+2019>s most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information. this decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators. i renew my call for the director of national intelligence to suspend all classified briefings for secretary clinton until this matter is fully resolved.<u+201d> 




so, 11 days before our presidential election, we<u+2019>ve had the fbi director, who happens to be a republican, release an ambiguous letter which touches on an unsubstantiated scandal for which the democratic presidential candidate came out of clean as a whistle because charges couldn<u+2019>t be justified. and now we<u+2019>ve had the speaker of the house call for the candidate<u+2019>s intelligence briefings to be suspended <u+201c>until this matter is fully resolved.<u+201d> 




which, by the way, the fbi director says he <u+201c>cannot predict how long it will take to complete this additional work.<u+201d> 




yeah, ok. like this doesn<u+2019>t have political ploy written all over it. how pathetic. 




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