Didn't AG Lynch publicly announce she was deferring the decision to prosecute or not to the FBI?
Funny happenstance. FBI is nothing but an investigatory body. No prosecutorial power whatsoever.
FBI assembles evidence and turns it over to the AG. AG then determines to prosecute or not.
Clearly defined roles.
AG Lynch intentionally compromised herself for political reasons.
Then she magnanimously refused to do her job.
Comey should have fallen on his sword when he still had some integrity.
Based.
It's more complicated than that. By my reckoning at least. A brief timeline of the election without looking up the exact dates.
Primary season starts.
Shortly thereafter Comey announces an investigation into Clinton.
Several months pass.
Trump emerges as the Republican front runner.
Clinton pulls sharply ahead of Sanders, all the while the DNC has their thumb on the scales. Whether or not it was necessary is unclear to me. Interestingly Sanders has a much larger lead in the polls over Trump than Clinton does.
A week or so before the election Comey is like "Surprise bitch! You're being investigated again!".
Clinton's thin lead on Trump turns into a deficit.
A few days before the election Comey is like "Psyche! You're okay. I'm just punking you."(Comey's exact wording may differ from mine).
Trump wins.
A few months of Russia stuff.
Comey announces he's investigation Trump.
Fast forward to today Trump fires Comey over... exaggerating the exact amount of leaked emails?
So what I've wondered is who does Comey work for?
Is it the American people? Well it's obvious you want to get an investigation like this out of the way as fast as possible. If Clinton is a criminal then she needs to step aside. If she's innocent then we don't want baseless accusations skewing the election. Comey took the exact wrong amount of time to achieve this.
Does he work for Clinton? Probably not with that October surprise.
Does he work for Trump? If so then why did Trump just fire him?