My guess is the SAC NY office in conjunction with SACs in DC pressured Comey.
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Presumably these are not DOJ loyalists. Is that correct?
If so, how would they have gotten info from Loretta Lynche’s appointees in the Brooklyn FBI office. Who naturally would want the matter buried until after the election.
And if Comey concluded that there was no there there— how could the SAC NY office in conjunction with SACs in DC pressure him to reopen the investigation.
Comey and Bernie Sanders both woke up with a bloody horse head next to them in bed. That’s how.
In NYC court houses are full of leaks. And the computer was examined, first by NYPD IT Unit then by FBI NY IT Unit. USA ED was assigned the case by Lynch, through intermediaries but by her. What is on the computer is known by many. NYPD and Manhattan DA were likely told to stand aside with the threat of denial of Fed FBI DHS cooperation also DHS has cut back anti terror funds recently. Stand aside and the money is returned and probably Chuck Schumer gets to announce it.
Comey knows there is a there there, though not the fantastical tales of voodoo and white slavery. But he may be unwilling to go to the wall of a Constitutional Crisis. Can he keep his guys quiet? Maybe , maybe not. But how many of these guys want to be SAC in the Boise or Little Rock office. That is what I would tell them when I said to them Let it go.
Lastly dorry for the confusion. There is a USA for tge Eastrrn and Southrrn districts. Separate jurisdictions and staffs, but thrre is one office for the FBI in NYC to which all agents takevtheir day to day orders.