The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Those damn emails

     FBI director Comey contributed to Obama’s opponents in each of his  elections:  August 2008, $2,300 to John McCain ; 2012 ,$5000 ( the maximum )to Mitt Romney .Also $2,500 to Susan Brooks (Ind.), Brooks went on to win a House seat.

    Nothing wrong with that of course but just possibly  relevant as perspective re his role  in the email controversy. 

    Possibly relevant as perspective re what I suggest are my several Dagblog comments  that the security services "would classify a ham sandwich". In proposing  which I've almost certainly  overstated the relevance of my background , re  my military service and years in the Defense Industry.

    I understand the Hillary camp may feel "least said, soonest mended." Perhaps right. That's what campaign managers get paid for knowing.  My non- professional gut feeling is that in this  case , more is better.

    Political nature abhors a vacuum and until reality somehow intrudes Hillary's many enemies will have license for dark speculations about those 103 classified emails:

    o the location of our most powerful nuclear deterrent?

    o the poison we're trying to slip into Putin's hot chocolate?  

    And her supporters , like me, will try to imply that half of the classified communiction were performance evaluations of State Dept underlings and the balance hurtful gossip about Merkel , Mugabe ,Abe etc.

    Great guy that Comey no doubt is , as well as enthusiastic Republican ( although he said that he is not a registered one this year)  my recommendation is that  Hillary shouldn't rely on the kindness  of (Republican) strangers. I think she should  request that someone with the required clearance ( Bobby Inman?) review the naughty 103 and  release of as much information as possible about them.  ,

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    PBS:

    In 2007, when Congress asked the Bush administration for emails surrounding the firing of eights U.S. attorneys, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales revealed that many of the emails requested could not be produced because they were sent on a non-government email server.  The officials had used the private domain gwb43.com, a server run by the Republican National Committee. Two years later, it was revealed that potentially 22 million emails were deleted, which was considered by some to be a violation of the Presidential Records Act

    Talking Points Memo received the Polk Award for uncovering the attorney firing scandal, which was meant as payback for US attorneys not doing what they were told by Cheney/Rove/Gonzalez.