Excuse me? Can we pile this onto the already towering stack of reasons to be outraged that, 12 days before the election, FBI Director James Comey made a big issue of Hillary Clinton emails that turned out to be, by his own admission, totally meaningless?
The FBI and five other law enforcement and intelligence agencies have collaborated for months in an investigation into Russian attempts to influence the November election, including whether money from the Kremlin covertly aided President-elect Donald Trump, two people familiar with the matter said. [...]
The informal, inter-agency working group began to explore possible Russian interference last spring, long before the FBI received information from a former British spy hired to develop politically damaging and unverified research about Trump, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the inquiry.
For months? Since last spring? Let’s set aside the specifics of the investigation, which McClatchy reports involves “whether a system for routinely paying thousands of Russian-American pensioners may have been used to pay some email hackers in the United States.” Instead, let’s focus on the fact that Comey was apparently capable of in the neighborhood of six months of silence on the possibility that Russia was funneling money into the United States to help Donald Trump, while it was unthinkable that he could muster up the few days of silence it would have taken him to discover that there was nothing to report on Clinton’s emails.
Not that we needed more reasons to believe that Comey intentionally acted—along with Russia—to tip the election to Trump. But if by chance you did want more reasons, here you go.