How ironic.
Amid all the self-serving, Trumpian bluster about voter fraud and media conspiracies, it would seem conspiracists could have a field day scrutinizing the besieged Clinton campaign. They could point to de facto Trump-Putin or Trump-Assange tickets. They could wonder whether WikiLeaks solicits stolen emails from anybody else to the detriment of any other superpower presidential candidate.
And they could ponder FBI Director James Comey’s decision to notify Congress that the bureau has emails from the computer of disgraced former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of Hillary Clinton’s uber confidante, Huma Abedin. Word is some of the messages include correspondence associated with Clinton and Abedin.
Word also is that the Bureau wasn’t sure what it actually had, but first things first, speculate conspiracists, the obvious priority was getting it into the public arena with only a few days before the election. And if nothing proves indictable, at least you’ve put emails back into the news cycle and made the unsavory association among Clinton, Abedin and the sexting Carlos Danger.
The Clinton campaign was not the only one that felt blindsided and disturbed. The Department of Justice–starting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch–felt the same. It’s beyond odd for the Justice Department and the FBI to not be on the same page on such a consequential matter. But it would fit the scenario of conspiracists, who are already studying up on the Hatch Act, which prohibits partisan politicking by government employees.