It's clear that James Comey KNOWS there were shenanigans going on at the FBI between October 3 and October 27, because for his team to sit on *650,000 emails* for *24 days* and then (by the way, *falsely*) say "we can't review these by Election Day" is 100%, straight-up insanity.
2/ Here's where it gets bad for Comey: "A week or so before the election, we find material on Weiner's laptop that may change the result, including the missing Blackberry emails."
No, man... the FBI found that material *36 days* before Election Day. It *wasn't* "a week or so."
No, man... the FBI found that material *36 days* before Election Day. It *wasn't* "a week or so."
3/ Comey misconstrues Lynch's comment about leaking. He assumes she meant that it could've leaked on November 4, 2016 if he'd sought a warrant—but I think she's referring to news of the "new" Clinton emails leaking from the NYC field office. The IG reports seems to confirm that.
4/ And here's a smoking gun (with Trump's hand on the grip): "I knew that there were leaks coming, or appeared to be leaks about criminal investigation of the Clintons coming out of New York." That was the rogue element in the NYC field office in cahoots with the Trump campaign.
5/ "The criminal folks in NYC were now involved in a major way, and there'd been enough [leaks] up there that I thought there was a pretty reasonable likelihood it would leak, and that's what Loretta was reflecting." So he rescued himself on his misconstruing of Lynch's comment.
6/ So after Comey conclusively establishes that he was gamed by people with (pro-Trump) political motives, there's this bewildering exchange:
STEPHANOPOULOS: So were you gamed here by people who had political motives?
COMEY: I don't think so.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So were you gamed here by people who had political motives?
COMEY: I don't think so.
