The investigation by the FBI into email exchanges between Pantsuit and her top aide, Huma Abedin, is no longer warrantless; the agency received its warrant and has begun sifting through them over howls of indignation by Democratics. Amazingly, there are some 650,000 emails involved. Who writes that many emails? Lordy!
Harry Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, last night accused James Comey, the FBI director, of possibly breaking federal law by announcing the new steps in the email investigation so close to the election.
“Your actions in recent months have demonstrated a disturbing double standard for the treatment of sensitive information, with what appears to be a clear intent to aid one political party over another,” Mr Reid wrote in a letter to Mr Comey.
“I am writing to inform you that my office has determined that these actions may violate the Hatch Act, which bars FBI officials from using their official authority to influence an election. Through your partisan actions, you may have broken the law.”
It seems unlikely that Dirty Harry's letter will cause the director to lose any sleep. As for his so-called "double standard", the lifer politician might might want to point to any Republican or independent party official who so cavalierly treated sensitive information before casting aspersions. That's apparently more than he can manage. He seems mostly upset by the fact that the coronation hasn't been proceeding as planned; first there was that upstart socialist mucking things up, and now there's this whole Weiner business. Pantsuit's 12-point lead has suddenly evaporated, and Harry's mad. But as a disinterested outsider in this election, it looks as though the Democratics brought it all upon themselves through their own arrogance. Well, that and Weiner's wiener.
