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Originally Posted by Flamenspiel
Its certainly not nothing
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It could very well be nothing, at the time Comey wrote the letter all he was aware of was their existence. Many different articles suggest that they would need a court order to examine the emails, which makes sense I assume the FBI has to follow the law for gathering evidence, and they didn't have the laptop for anything related to Clinton. Other sources have suggested the emails aren't from Clinton's private email server and aren't even from Clinton.
So there's every possibility that there is nothing, and that's the point. You're right on one hand if there is something and they didn't report it then they'd be in big trouble, but Comey made his own bed so now he should have to lie in it. The other way is arguably worse, if they announced this giving Republicans a gift 10 days before the election, Trump wins, and then it ends up being nothing, the FBI has interfered with an election.
Which is why they have the methods they do to prevent this kind of thing. Methods Comey ignored.
If the FBI said "We're investigating the Trump campaign for links to the Russian hacking and leaking of emails to Wikileaks" (which they most likely are), and just left it at that, how many people would assume that where there's smoke there's fire and assume that Trump has Russian connections? TONS. It'd be nuts. It would also be completely irresponsible of the FBI to do that.