memeorandum: ‘Put it all out on the table’: Hillary ramps up her war with FBI director Comey as she hits … (Geoff Earle/Daily Mail)

1:25 AM ET, October 30, 2016

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Justice officials warned FBI that Comey's decision to update Congress was not consistent with department policy — Senior Justice Department officials warned the FBI that Director James B. Comey's decision to notify Congress about renewing the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server …

The Daily Beast:

Huma Abedin Swore Under Oath She Gave Up ‘All the Devices’ With State Dept. Emails — In a normal election year, a normal candidate's close aide who caused even minor embarrassment to a campaign so near to Election Day would be whisked away as quickly as possible to avoid becoming a distraction.

Discussion: Fox News, Washington Post, Independent Journal Review, New York Times, The Right Scoop and The Lid

Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:

‘Put it all out on the table’: Hillary ramps up her war with FBI director Comey as she hits out at his ‘strange, unprecedented and deeply troubling’ decision to announce reopening of email probe — Hillary Clinton took her war against FBI Director James Comey right to her own supporters Saturday …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Michael Isikoff / Yahoo:

Exclusive: FBI still does not have warrant to review new Abedin emails linked to Clinton probe — When FBI Director James Comey wrote his bombshell letter to Congress on Friday about newly discovered emails that were potentially “pertinent” to the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server …

Discussion: Politicus USA, Raw Story and Balloon Juice

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Just a Few Days — Last night I noted that current news reporting suggests that the FBI has not even determined whether any of the Huma Abedin emails are new - i.e., they have not confirmed how many if any were not already produced and scrutinized by the FBI in the investigation that ended in July.

New York Times:

Justice Dept. Strongly Discouraged Comey on Move in Clinton Email Case — The day before the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, sent a letter to Congress announcing that new evidence had been discovered that may be related to the completed Hillary Clinton email investigation …

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Refinery29 and Blue Virginia

Matthew Miller / Washington Post:

James Comey fails to follow Justice Department rules yet again — Matthew Miller was director of the Justice Department's public affairs office from 2009 to 2011. — FBI Director James B. Comey's stunning announcement that he has directed investigators to begin reviewing new evidence …

Discussion: Politicus USA, The Root and Mediaite

New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Assails James Comey, Calling Email Decision ‘Deeply Troubling’ — Hillary Clinton and her allies sprang onto a war footing on Saturday, opening a ferocious attack on the F.B.I.'s director a day after he disclosed that his agency was looking into a potential new batch of messages from her private email server.

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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Dems train fire on Comey

Discussion: Hot Air

CNN:
Clinton campaign wages new war against James Comey

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Kerry Picket / The Daily Caller:
DC Attorney: FBI Never Destroyed Laptops Of Clinton Aides

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Candace Smith / ABC News:
Donald Trump Says Clinton Has ‘Nobody to Blame But Herself’

Discussion: Associated Press and Patterico's Pontifications

Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
HILLARY CLINTON'S EMAILS: THE REAL REASON THE FBI IS REVIEWING MORE OF THEM

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Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Lynch advised Comey against letter to Congress: report

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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
James Comey Broke with Loretta Lynch and Justice Department Tradition

Maia Davis / ABC News:
Clinton Camp Slams FBI Director for Going ‘Light on Facts, Heavy on Innuendo’ in Letter on Email Probe

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Mediaite

The Hill:
Anger, disbelief in Clinton camp

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Power Line, ABC News and Vox Popoli

Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
With less than two weeks to go, this thing's not over yet

Discussion: Washington Post

Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Comey memo to FBI staffers says election, timing required disclosure of renewed probe

Discussion: BizPac Review, The Right Scoop, CNN, Fox News Insider, Independent Journal Review, Scripting News, Townhall.com and Infowars

Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
FBI Found “Tens Of Thousands Of Emails” Belonging To Huma Abedin On Weiner's Laptop

Discussion: RedState, Politico, New York Times, BizPac Review, Bloomberg, Mediaite, alan.com, Breitbart and Liberal Values

Mike Levine / ABC News:
What We Know About the FBI's Latest Review of Hillary Clinton's Emails

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and BizPac Review

Chad Griffin:

An Open Letter: HRC Revokes Endorsement Following Senator Mark Kirk's Racist Comments — After careful consideration, HRC's Public Policy Committee of the Board of Directors has taken the unprecedented step—a first in our 36-year history—of revoking an endorsement.

Discussion: BuzzFeed, NBC News, Towleroad, Washington Blade, LGBTQ Nation and The New Civil Rights Movement

David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:

Trump boasts about his philanthropy. But his giving falls short of his words. — In the fall of 1996, a charity called the Association to Benefit Children held a ribbon-cutting in Manhattan for a new nursery school serving children with AIDS. The bold-faced names took seats up front.

Discussion: Raw Story, Patterico's Pontifications, Politicus USA, alan.com, Balloon Juice and Joe.My.God.

BostonGlobe.com:

Law firm ‘bonuses’ tied to political donations — Jon Tester didn't come all the way from Montana for the scrambled eggs and bacon. The US senator, virtually unknown in Boston, was in a conference room at the Thornton Law Firm that June morning to cash in at one of the most reliable stops …

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon

Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:

Donald Trump Questions Veracity of Ballot Counting in Colorado — GOLDEN, Colo. — Donald J. Trump has found a new reason to question the legitimacy of the 2016 election — ballots — and he wasted little time here on Saturday before taking issue with the voting system in this largely vote-by-mail state.

Discussion: CBS News

Sarah Boden / Iowa Public Radio:
Des Moines Woman Says She Voted Twice For Trump Because “The Polls Are Rigged”

Discussion: Washington Post, Slate, Vox, Guardian, Law News, Joe.My.God., Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, The New Civil Rights Movement, Stop The Steal and The Huffington Post

Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Trump supporter charged with voting twice in Iowa

Discussion: The Right Scoop, Hullabaloo, New York Magazine, TalkLeft, The Week and alan.com

Sam Wang / New York Times:

Why Trump Stays Afloat — In one of the most emotionally wrenching presidential races in living memory, Donald J. Trump's support is as level as a pond. In polls, it is holding steady around 41 percent, right where it was after the first debate in late September.

Discussion: Princeton Election Consortium

New York Times:

WikiLeaks Lays Bare a Clinton Insider's Emphatic Cheers and Jeers — In one note, Neera Tanden groused that whoever had let Hillary Clinton use a private email address for her State Department correspondence should be “drawn and quartered.” — In another, she called for Mrs. Clinton …

Discussion: Guardian, New York Magazine and Fox News Insider

Gary Langer / ABC News:

Shift in the Electorate's Makeup Tightens the Presidential Contest (POLL) — It's a tale of two electorates in the ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll, with shifts in intended turnout moving a large advantage for Hillary Clinton a week ago to a far tighter 2016 presidential race today.