in September about the allegedly "new" emails on Weiner's laptop.

I find it unbelievable that Comey did not have that laptop examined during that time, that he did not find that those "new" emails were just duplicates of those already found.

We're talking about from late Sept. to late Oct. when he sent the letter to Chaffetz about re-opening the email investigation.

Comey and others want us to believe that that laptop was just put on a shelf somewhere and was not examined until Comey sent the Oct. 28, 2016 letter to Chaffetz.

Come on. Who believes that? IMO Comey, the rogue FBI agents in the NY FBI office and Ghouliani had to have found, during that whole month from late Sept. to late Oct., that there was nothing new there so it becomes pretty damn obvious that a plan was developed to spring this on the country 11 days before the election to tilt it to trump.

And remember how quickly after the 28th or Oct. it was found that the "new" emails were duplicates—what was it, 5 or 6 days later they announced the emails on Weiner's laptop were duplicates?

So we're supposed to believe that no one examined that laptop for a month from late Sept. to late Oct.?

Yeah, right .

We're also supposed to believe the cover story that Comey was being pressured by the rogue agents to go public before they did on the "new" emails yet nothing happened to these insubordinated agents who threaten their boss. Also consider Ghouliani's brag on national TV in late October 2016 that "something big" was coming soon, and it did.

IMO it was all planned and those partisan hacks were in on helping swing the election purposely to trump.

....until he was forced to do it by Nunes and Republicans in the House. He could have said "No", but it would have reflected very badly on he and the FBI, although he knew there was nothing on Wiener's computer he had not already seen. They exerted undue influence on Comey, in my opinion.

doesn't make sense. Comey, the rogue agents and Ghouliani, Nunes, et all knew in late Sept. '16 about the "new" emails on Weiner's laptop but who believes that none of them examined that laptop for a whole month, from late Sept. to late Oct. '16?

IMO of course someone did. No one sits on that kind of inflammatory info for a month without examining it, so they had to know the emails were duplicates and that leads us to a conclusion.

It was all a set-up to help swing the election to trump and the "Comey being pressured by rogue agents" was just a cover story for Comey.

It wasn't supposed to come out that Comey knew about Weiner's laptop in Sept. not late Oct.

He was attempting to appease the right-wingers that were attacking him, the FBI, and the Justice Department.

I think he knew there was nothing to incriminate Hillary Clinton.

Although possible, I do not think he was part of a set-up to swing the election to Trump because he knew Trump was an international criminal, who had escaped justice for decades.

on the laptop, but I don't think that Comey, despite his goody-two-shoes image, was naive enough to believe such a late revelation of a re-opening of the email investigation would not effect the election. Especially since he also knew about the trump/Putin/bot connection.

Comey was an old Washington hand not a novice.

....and I think Comey thought likewise. After all, he cleared her in both investigations. But he allowed himself to be used by the right-wing, beginning with his report on the first investigation where he declared Hillary "extremely careless" in the use of her server. But he found no evidence of wrongdoing or intent of any criminal act. Our entire system was used and abused by the right-wing attack machine in the last election. No one was exempt.