He knew what he was doing.

the other investigation into Russia. For one thing, Ari Berman has it wrong. It wasn't a Trump-Russia investigation at that point. It was still just a Russia investigation, Comey says. It was beginning to involve the Trump team, but nothing of real substance yet, or something like that. By the time he was fired, it WAS an investigation of Trump team-Russia, in part.

I'm not defending him, but after a lifetime of a reputation of being honest, hard working, and trustworthy, I accept that he screwed up. I SORT OF understand his thinking of trying to take the hit that he knew was coming, no matter what the FBI did. Half the country was going to be angry no matter what they did.

But he did screw up. I don't understand why he didn't at least discuss it with his higher ups. If we could only go back in time.

I'm not convinced the Comey thing was responsible for the Trump win. I still think Russia did it, and that Hillary did indeed win.

why was it fine to publicly state he was reopening an investigation into a candidate but not about low level campaign employees???

Something aint smelling right.

suggesting it didn't amount to much of anything compared to the Clinton investigation during campaign. When in fact FBI already knew about Russians being responsible for the hacking that hurt Hillary plus the Russian contacts involving Papadopolous, Page, and probably others in Trump orbit plus the allegations of Steele Dossier. No wonder Christopher Steele became concerned that FBI was ignoring or slow-walking the Trump/Russia investigation.

RUMP investigation and it did not involve RUMP at all at that time.

the other candidate.

Something is really off here.

Republicans on the hill.

Then again, there was no good reason to involve the FBI to begin with.

Republicans on the hill are of course the ones really behind this. Ugh.

of the Democratic candidate for president.

this planet.

With hundred of thousands emails.

The people most directly responsible is whoever read those emails on Weiner's laptop and Weiner for sexting with a minor.

If he's being honest, he fully expected Clinton to win and didn't want to lend weight to any claims of illegitimacy that the Right would surely be weaponizing against her presidency. He thought the exposure would actually serve her well. Again, if he's being honest.

However, the Right doesn't need facts to wage a war, so, I believe he made a grievous error. And, I'll never forgive him. Pisses me off that he's getting rich off this book. Also, his self-righteousness now (those on Twitter will know what I mean) is super irritating.

I wonder how long it was before they'd talk to him after he threw that monkey wrench into the campaign.

Because he was misleading the American people.

All he had was a backup file from before Clinton performed her delete of email. He just performed a compare of the backup email with the email he already had. That did uncover email not previously disclosed. One of those the two women discussed what they were wearing to an event both were attending that night. Instead Comey made it sound sinister with them finding email Clinton was withholding. Comey did say that he realized he was in a no-win situation but much of that was of his own mating.