There is a tradition in this country. Don’t ask me why. It’s against the rules to have a Democratic Secretary of Defense, though sometimes that rule is observed in the breach. But it’s always against the rules to let a Democrat run the FBI, hence we have a Republican running the FBI at present, a Republican who has decided to interject himself into the election at the last minute by reviving the bogus email story.
If Rod Serling, a very great man, were alive today, he would point out that in the Twilight Zone, where a Democratic FBI director is, at this very moment, announcing that he is initiating an investigation of the Donald, Republicans are, with one voice, accusing him of an abuse of power for attempting to influence the election. Now, in the Twilight Zone, the director of the FBI might be legitimately puzzled by that reaction, because as we here in the Reality Zone also know, there are, in fact, plenty of reasons to investigate the Donald. But, my broader point is that those Republicans would be squawking, and that would be the story. Consider, for instance, how the Republicans turned a perfectly reasonable investigation into non-profits getting involved in politics into a story about politically motivated abuse of power by the IRS.
Here in the Reality Zone, Democrats assume the defensive crouch. Here in the Reality Zone, there is no there there so far as any criminal violations by Clinton might be concerned, but the Democrats will defer to the Director, because, after all, we can trust the FBI Director, can’t we? I mean, whoever heard of an FBI director trying to subvert the democratic process or undermine the rights of the American people?
Postscript: Since the link in the last paragraph is to a mainstream media piece, you have to read carefully and winnow out the bullshit to get to the meat of the thing, which is contained in these paragraphs:
A senior law enforcement official told NBC News Friday that the Comey letter was sent to the Hill “out of an abundance of caution” and to be extra-thorough.
There’s no indication, the official said, that Clinton, her campaign or the State Department withheld information about the contents on Weiner’s laptop.
It is hard to overstate how outrageous this is. Out of an abundance of caution the head of the FBI decides to once again deviate from standard procedure to give one side in a political contest ammunition against the other. It’s really enough to make you wish you did live in the Twilight Zone.
Or maybe we do.
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