I think that Comey and McCabe where the “dirty” ones, and they combined to keep a cork in the FBI bottle, at the top.
But they could not contain the pressure from below.
Special Agent Leaker forced Comey to choose sides, and he jumped back toward the honorable FBI mutineers banging on the doors of his suite, instead of jumping off the top-floor FBI Building balcony to join Hillary on the casualty list.
While so many are excited, yet again, over the possibility that Hillary is finally gonna get hers, I think this may actually represent a dangerous development. If Hillary is forced to drop out of the race and violence “spontaneously” erupts, Obama might seize on this as an opportunity to realize his dream of a third term as “el Presidente for Life”. He might declare a state of emergency and cancel the election, and then we’re “off to the races” into various dire scenarios such as you’ve described in your novels and essays.