3 competing theories on why the FBI re-opened the Hillary email server investigation

There is no question that re-opening the FBI Investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server is a big deal. The FBI normally avoids acting just before an election in order to avoid charges of political manipulation. NBC reports:

The FBI is reviewing a new batch of Hillary Clinton emails, bureau director James Comey said in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday.

"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation … I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation," he wrote.

The very first thing to note is that Comey made no mention of a grand jury. The emails whose existence he learned of may have been the result of a subpoena in another investigation. If that is the case, further subpoenas are quite possible, a tool that was left unused in the investigation to date.

There are 3 competing theories as to why he might be doing this now that come to mind.

1. He might be seeking to restore his badly damaged reputation, recognizing that the damage he has inflicted on the FBI is substantial. Three days ago, American Thinker published an open letter from a retired FBI Agent, Hugh Galyean, that laid out some of the damage Comey has inflicted on the institution he leads. There is little doubt that this reached many in the FBI family, putting in print what people have only whispered about. If those silenced voices start speaking out, Comey could face a serious loss of face. In this scenario, he is heading off a staff rebellion, possibly including mass resignations.

2. Rush Limbaugh today discussed an alternative theory, that by announcing an FBI Investigation resuming, Comey is putting a lid on further attention to Wikileaks. I guess this means that Clinton forces will argue we must wait for the investigation to be complete (after the election) before speaking about what the evil Russians are planting into our politics.

3. It is possible that something so dramatic came up in the pertinent emails that postponing a public reaction by not announcing the reopening of the investigation would, be regarded as political interference by covering up a smoking gun until after the election. In this scenario, Comey is assuming the evidence cannot be suppressed, and that he would be held accountable after it comes out. This scenario also indicates that we could be headed for a constitutional crisis, involving the possible indictment of a president-elect before an election. Or the evidence being turned over to the House of Representatives for impeachment hearings.

We’ll know more in the coming days, and I am sure there are other possible theories and motives. It is shame that we have to speculate, and that the once-respected FBI director is now subject to analysis of his political gamesmanship.

Excellent write up sir. I am thinking 1 and 3 are more likely and hopefully it is not 3 as i'd agree we would be in a constitutional crisis in that case. Thanks.

It's only a constitutional crisis if she gets elected. If she loses ( most likely) then it's just more fuel for the dumpster fire of her political career.

Part of me suspects the FBI/NYPD found Huma's insurance policy. These corrupt scum bags all have dirt on each other. It would make sense for Huma or Weiner to keep a nuke handy to deal with Hillary should the need arise.
I know, I know. It's tinfoil hattish. That said, until now you could not write a political thriller with a plot as twisted and chaotic as this election because no one would believe it.

What if this isn't the only October surprise? What if Wikileaks still has yet to drop the other shoe?

There's a lot we don't know but 1 thing for sure the next 10 days will be the ride of a lifetime.

Orange suits her very well!

I think the idea of Huma haveing these emails as an "insurance policy" is very believable. High end criminals like these people always hedge their bets and don't trust anyone. No matter what happens between the sheets (shudder).

It's not Huma's insurance, is Anthony's.

HRC and Abedin couldn't care less about Tony Dangler.

Tony, OTOH needed a get out of jail card. What the FBI got was proof he has one. They then carried the message back to the Clintons, who must be shitting themselves.

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Another possibility is that since it was the NYPD (who were doing the original sex texting a minor case) who gave the information to the FBI, the fact is there is another agency that KNOWS what is in the emails. Information that could/will leak out and really embarrass Comey and the FBI. It could also be that the emails found are the "smoking gun" that puts the case over the hurdles set by the DOJ and Comey.

I see a lot of carts before the horse and counted chickens in this thread.
Tread cautiously gentleman. It is not Nov. 9th. This whole election has just given me weird vibes. I really have no clue how it is going to end and with the way things have gone I would not be surprised if it was not done on Nov. 9th.
Proceed with caution folks. Get out and vote and encourage everyone to get out and vote NO MATTER who good they might feel about the election.

I'd like to think there are emails from huma to the Muslim brotherhood sharing intel gleaned from Hilary's daily briefings...

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Originally posted by jsbcody:
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Another possibility is that since it was the NYPD (who were doing the original sex texting a minor case) who gave the information to the FBI, the fact is there is another agency that KNOWS what is in the emails. Information that could/will leak out and really embarrass Comey and the FBI. It could also be that the emails found are the "smoking gun" that puts the case over the hurdles set by the DOJ and Comey.

^This^ x100

This whole thing is Huey P Long class politics, hopefully this will take down the Queenfish.

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Originally posted by jsbcody:
f2:

Another possibility is that since it was the NYPD (who were doing the original sex texting a minor case) who gave the information to the FBI, the fact is there is another agency that KNOWS what is in the emails. Information that could/will leak out and really embarrass Comey and the FBI. It could also be that the emails found are the "smoking gun" that puts the case over the hurdles set by the DOJ and Comey.

I agree this sounds highly plausible. Excellent assessment.

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Haha. Easy, brah, you're going to give yourself a coronary.

Michael Moore: Hillary Email Announcement ‘Bullsh*t,’ ‘I Don’t Want To Hear This,’ She Has Been ‘Abused’

by IAN HANCHETT
28 Oct 2016

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” filmmaker Michael Moore reacted to the FBI announcing it was taking a second look into Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails by stating, “She has been attacked and abused for 30 years. I’m sick of it. I don’t want to hear this 11 days before the election. … Bill, this is just such bullsh*t.”

Moore said, “This is just another one of these things. She has been attacked and abused for 30 years. I’m sick of it. I don’t want to hear this 11 days before the election.”

He added, “[i]f these emails — these new emails can prove that she started a war because a dictator threatened to kill her daddy, or she war-profiteered on behalf of Halliburton, or maybe she yelled at an aide to get her more Tic-Tacs. Maybe then, I want to read the emails. But other than that, Bill, this is just such bullsh*t.”

http://www.breitbart.com/video...she-has-been-abused/

So has Michael Boore been feigning support for the Donald all this time? Who woulda thunk it!?!?!

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
So has Michael Boore been feigning support for the Donald all this time? Who woulda thunk it!?!?!

He never supported Trump.

Here's the most plausible explanation, I think, for Comey's reopening the investigation: He fears, or has reason to suspect, that Wikileaks will dump emails next week that would have made it absolutely clear that he deliberately botched the first investigation. Assange announced that the next dump would implicate Hillary directly.

Listening to Giuliani last night, on Hannity, review just how indefensible it was for Comey to not recommend indictment-- Comey is a sleazy, dirty cop. So I don't know what we can expect from him.

I never thought I'd see the day. The cesspool of corruption the Clinton's preside over!

Lest we forget folks, nothing in the world of politics and the power brokers is left to random chance. There is something afoot here. If Hillary has been deemed expendable at this point it can only be due to a more heinous design.

As much as I want to believe that something from so far out in left field, something no one on the left could even fathom to anticipate could put a cold steel plate in front of a Hillary presidency, it just doesn't compute. Not this late in the game.

I have lived through and watched the Clinton's slither through every scandal that seemed to be their death knell. Quite frankly I thought the Clinton's were at the very pinnacle of power.
This latest revelation is unsettling and makes one wonder who is pulling the strings here. 11 days before the election and Hillary gets cut off at the knees? Who is wielding the sword?
Certainly not a low level pervert like Anthony Weiner.

Comey has been proven to march to orders. For him to do this at this point has to be just another marching order.
Stay focused and don't let your guard down gents.

Some sinister conspiracy by the all mighty puppet master or just bad luck perpetrated by the weiner?

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Why did the Watergate burglars get caught? Were they incompetent?
"Tape, bad timing and bad luck."

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-...ere-they-incompetent