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Originally Posted by Platapus
Imagine if Covey did not disclose this latest bit of news? The RNC would be all up in arms about the FBI concealing information.
It was a lose lose situation for Covey. But if you can't stand the heat.....
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The double-bind of being a top government official in a super-heated partisan environment. James Comey stays quiet and continues to investigate. Two months from now the news leaks about Weiner emails and possible links to Hillary. Comey then gets blamed for not being transparent and suppressing an investigation which could have changed the 2016 election results. The Department of Justice would fry him and the Trump backers and GOP would call for his head by suppressing this scandal to help get Clinton elected (again).
Comey is burned if he does and screwed if he doesn't. So he figured best to be transparent now and be blamed, rather than be opaque and blamed later.