Your “third option” requires making choices based on what helps Hillary the most, which was not Comey’s obligation. You also seem to accept the notion that a credible examination of the 650,000 files on the Weiner-Abedin laptop could or did occur in a matter of days. After using stonewalling for months and years on the basis of how long it took to examine thousands of files in this case, it is absolutely preposterous to pretend they thoroughly reviewed 650,000 over a few days. We have no idea what the laptop files actually contained and neither did Comey when he pronounced that nothing had been found “that changed his judgment about the case”. Note how his wording skirts the issue of what was found. The mere fact massive quantities of Hillary’s state department files were found in the possession of her top aide’s sex offending spouse, and that said top aide had failed to disclose the existence of this laptop during multiple FBI interrogations is evidence of itself that Hillary and her staff were massively mishandling classified information and obstructing justice.
In July 2016 Comey had made it clear that he knew Hillary, and others in her group, were guilty and SHOULD be indicted, but he was not recommending indictment because in is judgement, “no prosecutor would take the case”. He left unsaid “because politics made it too difficult a case to pursue” and no one pinned him down on whether, despite that, the evidence indicated that HRC was guilty of violating the LAW. As he said, Comey dismissed the laptop evidence on the same basis: politics outweighs the rule of law because its Hillary. He obviously wanted to expose the laptop situation to remove any doubt of Hillary’s guilt and unfitness for office.
Here are some real options a better man would have taken:
1) Publicly expose and condemn Lynch and the DoJ for obstructing the investigation, granting immunity, allowing games about Atty-Client privilege to protect Hillary, etc.
2) Fire Deputy FBI Director McCabe for failing to recuse himself from the investigations of Hillary Clinton while his own wife received $600,000 raised mostly via a political event headlined by Hillary Clinton.
3) Recommend appointment of an independent prosecutor to take over the case from DoJ, because of its through corruption, and investigate not only Hillary, et al, but the corrupt AG and DoJ.
4) Recommend indictments for various lesser players in Hillary’s scheme, as a stepping stone to the kingpin.
Hi Chewbarkah,
I agree with you everything except your opening paragraph. You have to take into account the DOJ and FBI’s policy regarding public statements about investigations right before an election, not what helps Hillary the most. We shouldn’t want these organizations influencing any election, should we? Secondly, Comey had access to the meta data before the search warrant. The FBI could search the most likely emails (the first three months) to find intent, which was the DOJ’s standard, IMO. I agree with everything else though. Thank you.