James Comey Writes Again

On Sunday afternoon, with a day and a half left before the Presidential election, James Comey, the director of the F.B.I., sent a letter to congressional leaders to “supplement” a message he had sent them on October 28th. The earlier letter, as he put it on Sunday, had notified them that the bureau “would be taking additional investigative steps with respect to former Secretary of State Clinton’s use of a personal email server.” Almost immediately, the public learned, via leaks, that those steps had been occasioned by a new cache of e-mails from accounts belonging to Huma Abedin, Clinton’s longtime aide, which had been found on a device she shared with her estranged husband, the former congressman Anthony Weiner. Now at least one—and, although Comey didn’t say so, the most important—of those investigative steps had been accomplished: “We reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State.” This is what Donald Trump had hoped, earlier this week, might be the “motherlode” of raw scandal materials, and “bigger than Watergate.” But Comey’s next line was surely a profound disappointment to Trump and his campaign. “Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton.”

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