After reading the article, I'm still trying to figure out how it's backfiring on the Dems. It makes Comey look bad, sure, but the Dems are already mad at him because of his announcement just before the election. If you're thinking that the information may make the FBI reopen the investigation, I don't see why. Trump is the president. He said during the campaign that he would put Hillary behind bars. (And people think Comey jumped the gun when he drafted a statement just a couple of months before the investigation concluded. Trump made his conclusion before he had even seen any of the real evidence.) The FBI still has all the evidence, Trump could just tell them to turn it over to the DoJ and let the prosecutors file charges. If the contents of the deleted emails are important, Trump could have the NSA turn them over to the DoJ. All this could happen whether Trump is being investigated or not.
...Comey fibbed when he said his agents unanimously agreed that prosecution was unnecessary. In fact, my source says that FBI agents were irate about the decision not to go after Clinton
Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
Is it possible that the agents who were irate were the same ones who were cracking jokes about seeing Hillary in handcuffs before the investigation even began?
I also found a couple of other statements in the article interesting.
Numerous reports coming out of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week said that former FBI Director James Comey made the decision not to refer Clinton for prosecution long before he even interviewed key witnesses, including Hillary.
Actually, the reports say that he wrote and circulated a draft not to refer her for prosecution, not that he made the decision.
Clinton’s emails, which were stolen by the Russians, have never been found.
He's talking here about the emails on her server that she deleted. I could find no reports, however, that the server was ever compromised or that the Russians stole them. What I did find was that Peter W. Smith, described as a long-time Republican operative who had been going after the Clintons since Troopergate, was convinced that the emails had been stolen by the Russians and was seeking to get them. He approached several cyber-security experts with emails that "hackers" had claimed were the deleted emails. He was trying to verify their authenticity. None of the experts would touch it. Smith was not confident enough of their authenticity to release them himself. So he reportedly gave them to WikiLeaks, which has not published them to date.
Now, I believe that Smith was dealing with scammers, not hackers, and the whatever he had was fake. If it was authentic, however, it seems to me that the whole thing could more easily hurt the Republicans than the Democrats. Smith implied that he was working with the Trump campaign, so if the emails were legitimate the public could see it as proof that the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians.