It’s funny how, when Comey gave Clinton a free pass back in July, the Democrats were singing his praises and the Republicans were ready to hang him. Now, everything has flipped. Comey reopens the investigation and now the Republicans are singing his praises and the Democrats are ready to hang him. Just shows the amazing hypocrisy that occupies both the Democrat and Republican parties.
It's not surprising - the Democrats were thoroughly convinced that Hillary was completely innocent of wrongdoing and so Comey's decision confirmed what they thought already - that the whole mess was a pointless Republican witch hunt that was brought to a close. The Republicans thought the decision was a joke and somehow motivated for something other than following the law. Even the FBI agents involved weren't crazy about it, and I have to admit, the whole deal is fishy - the airplane meeting with Bill and not at least brought before a grand jury.
Coming back to it again just prior to the election - also looks fishy IF the investigation doesn't yield something extraordinary. If it does NOT, it will look like Comey is just doing CYA due to disgruntled agents and a possibility of a Trump presidency - in which case he might lose his job.
So to the Republicans, he is correcting a mistake - because, please, Hillary is NOT innocent of all wrongdoing, others HAVE gone to jail for less - but to the Democrats he is timing it in a way that will hurt her campaign.
I don't think that can be the case, because if he knuckled under partisan pressure before, it doesn't make sense that he'd do it again the other way. If he knuckled under pressure to the GOP - well, Hillary is ahead - why might he do that, especially when it was a non-issue previously? There's no practical reason. There's no sensible motive unless he is a complete partisan hack, in which case - why would he rule against them in July? No sense.
MY GUT tells me nothing will come of it - he is just furthering the investigation because the Weiner case is revealing emails that may have been destroyed and need investigating. I don't think you need explosive damaging evidence to re-open a case, just lots of NEW evidence. It may well be that the emails will totally overlap or if they don't, there won't be anything THERE. This is where Hillary is wrong, and being a lawyer, she knows she is. He can re-open a case and check the emails. She's pissed that he's doing it NOW rather than after the election - because it "looks bad". But if you want someone to BE non-partisan, they do it when it comes to light, not when it is politically expedient.
