The AG could have ordered Comey not to send his bombshell letter on Clinton emails...why she didn't

[DonViejo]

The attorney general could have ordered FBI Director James Comey not to send his bombshell letter on Clinton emails. Here’s why she didn’t.

By Sari Horwitz December 22 at 4:53 PM

Twelve days before the presidential election, FBI Director James B. Comey dispatched a senior aide to deliver a startling message to the Justice Department. Comey wanted to send a letter to Congress alerting them that his agents had discovered more emails potentially relevant to the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

The official in Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates’s office who received the FBI call immediately understood the explosive potential of Comey’s message, coming so close to the presidential election. Federal attorneys scrambled into offices on the fourth and fifth floors of Justice Department headquarters, where they huddled to figure out how to stop what they viewed as a ticking time bomb.

“It was DEFCON 1,” said an official familiar with the deliberations. “We were in­cred­ibly concerned this could have an impact on the election.”

Aides at Justice and the FBI — located in offices directly across the street from each other on Pennsylvania Avenue — began exchanging increasingly tense and heated phone calls, nearly a half-dozen throughout the afternoon and evening of Oct. 27 and into the next morning.

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[Me.]

1. She Was Compromised

by the Bill Clinton meeting or so the RW talking points/media said and she acquiesced

[DonViejo]

4. She could have formally recused herself from the case, appointed a staffer to deal w/it but,

she didn't. And we all know where we're at because of it.

[Me.]

5. Yes She Could

And once again a Dem went great lengths to prove she was 'Caesar's wife'. I bet it keep her up at night.

[JudyM]

7. It happened fast. She should have spoken directly with Comey to tell him to hold off until she

assigned someone.

[JudyM]

9. Many of us here were disturbed at Bill's tarmac visit; now we see it hurt Hillary as the deepest cut

since it led to Comey being unrestrained from delivering his infamous declaration.

[Me.]

11. The Deepest Cut Is An Apt Description

I did wonder, from time to time, during both her campaigns if he subconsciously wanted to sabotage her.

[pbmus]

2. As she has already stated , this is going to get a lot more coverage

And it will become more interesting ...

[SFnomad]

3. If Lynch stopped Comey (or recused herself and let someone else do it)

Someone, maybe even Comey, would have leaked it to the press and the RepubliCONs. And then all hell would have broken loose ... it would have created an even bigger sh!tstorm than the release of the letter caused.

[JudyM]

6. Then we could've fired back that they were intentionally hiding evidence of Russian hacking.

[SFnomad]

8. And which one do you think would have gotten more play in the so-called "liberal" media?

When Comey decided to go rogue, we were in a lose-lose situation.

[JudyM]

10. Agreed, but there would've been more balance so it wasn't full headlights on Hillary.