James Comey's revenge tour proving he is not the noble upholder of justice he wants you to believe
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/17/1757913/-James-Comey-s-revenge-tour-proving-he-is-not-the-noble-upholder-of-justice-he-wants-you-to-believe
Here's the thing: the Clinton investigation wasn't an ordinary investigation, and that's precisely why Comey should have shut up about. He's admitting that his July 2016 decision to publicly criticize Clinton was against FBI protocol. There's policy in place to prevent FBI directors from doing things like making public statements or taking action that could directly affect an election, because the FBI director could have undue influence. Comey apparently felt that those rules didn't apply to him.
They didn't apply three months later either, when just 11 days before the election, he took it upon himself to make public the fact that "new" emails relevant to the Clinton probe had been discovered—before those emails were even reviewed by the FBI. Those emails turned out not to be new, but to be duplicates of those already seen by the agency. Comey excuses this lapse in his book by saying "It is entirely possible that, because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared closer."
Comey doesn't seem to have any problem with the fact that he overrode FBI policy—that he considered himself above it—when it came to damaging the reputation of the woman he believed was going to become president, and jumping the gun to do so. It was for her own good, he would have you believe, so she wouldn't be perceived as an "illegitimate president." Meanwhile, Russia was helping elect the other guy. Making him potentially an illegitimate president. Perhaps Comey shouldn't have injected himself there, either, though there should have been an overarching national security concern about the possibility that one of the candidates was somehow tied to a hostile foreign government that the FBI knew was interfering in the election.
Partisan or not, Comey was making decisions that proved he was holding himself above the agency he was directing, above the long-held policies that governed how it is supposed to operate—and how he was supposed to operate. His hubris, on full display as he preens and gossips and makes catty remarks about Trump's spray tan and hand size, quite possibly put this man he considers a dangerous buffoon in office. And even now, Comey says he wouldn't have it any other way. There's nothing at all noble in any of that.
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it took him to make up his tortured explanation. 
A cynical "creative speculator" might wonder if his Clinton announcement in July wasn't intended to knock her out of the race, and when that didn't do the trick he had to dream up another one to be strategically announced a few days before the election.
The most charitable explanation is that he bent over backwards, front, sideways and every which direction in order to respond to Republican criticisms of the FBI investigation and conspiracy theories (basically, because FBI found no criminal wrongdoing and Bill Clinton had contact with Loretta Lynch) and, in doing so, he ended up stepping all over the Election and Hillary Clinton to prove how "impartial" he was when he should have just ignored the idiot Republicans in Congress and kept his mouth tightly shut, like he did about their nascent investigation of Donald Trump, which also, incidentally, started during the Election.
but we're supposed to believe he is a man of integrity.
