Hey, getcha e-mails!
Calm down. The FBI has always been political. For years it regularly denied the very existence of organized crime while pursuing Americans for having incorrect politics, compiling dossiers on dangerous radicals like Leonard Bernstein and Groucho Marx. Agents wrote anonymous letters to Martin Luther King, Jr., urging him to commit suicide. Other agents spent countless hours deciphering the lyrics to "Louie, Louie" after the Director became convinced they were either obscene or seditious. (Read the book by Dave Marsh.) The sexual blackmail of politicians was routine. James Comey is just subtler than J. Edgar Hoover.
Comey subscribes to the Val Lewton theory of evidence: You don't have to show the Cat People; in fact, you don't want to. Drop hints, dim the lights, and make the audience use its imagination. Really, are communications between Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin likely to involve anything classified? More likely "Out of the office this AM for dentist appt" and "Any thoughts on Bill's birthday party?" But we won't see them for months, will we? Meanwhile we can wonder what else is on a laptop Abedin shared with digital flasher Anthony Weiner. (Do men in raincoats still jump out from behind trees, or is it all Smartphones now?) Slaver, slaver, where's Ken Starr? Oh, yes, at Baylor trying to protect rape-inclined football players.
It won't make Trump any less repellant. So calm down.
Comey subscribes to the Val Lewton theory of evidence: You don't have to show the Cat People; in fact, you don't want to. Drop hints, dim the lights, and make the audience use its imagination. Really, are communications between Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin likely to involve anything classified? More likely "Out of the office this AM for dentist appt" and "Any thoughts on Bill's birthday party?" But we won't see them for months, will we? Meanwhile we can wonder what else is on a laptop Abedin shared with digital flasher Anthony Weiner. (Do men in raincoats still jump out from behind trees, or is it all Smartphones now?) Slaver, slaver, where's Ken Starr? Oh, yes, at Baylor trying to protect rape-inclined football players.
It won't make Trump any less repellant. So calm down.