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Eric Holder / Washington Post:
James Comey is a good man, but he made a serious mistake — Eric Holder was U.S. attorney general from 2009 to 2015. — I began my career in the Justice Department's Public Integrity Section 40 years ago, investigating cases of official corruption. In the years since …
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Poll: Comey's bombshell changes few votes — The race for the White House is tight, but it has not been radically changed by the FBI director's bombshell announcement last week. — Hillary Clinton has a slim three-point lead over Donald Trump one week before Election Day …
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Open Letter from Former Federal Prosecutors and High-Ranking Officials of The U.S. Department of Justice — Sunday, as reported by the Associated Press, a group of nearly 100 former federal prosecutors and high-ranking DOJ officials from both Democratic and Republican administrations …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Abedin tells colleagues she's in dark about new email trove — Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has told colleagues she was taken aback when she learned that the FBI found her emails on a laptop belonging to her estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, and doesn't know how the messages got there …
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Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:
The FBI Director's Unworthy Choice — Comey acceded to the apparent wish of Obama that no charges be brought against Clinton. — We need not worry unduly about the factual void at the center of the FBI director's announcement on Friday that the bureau had found emails—perhaps thousands …
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Justin Miller / The Daily Beast:
Clinton Campaign Asks Ex-Prosecutors to Criticize FBI Director James Comey
Clinton Campaign Asks Ex-Prosecutors to Criticize FBI Director James Comey
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Philip B. Heymann / USA Today:
Ex-Justice official: FBI now Trump's political football
Ex-Justice official: FBI now Trump's political football
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: How a 12-term congressman is trying to survive the Trump headwinds in Florida
The Daily 202: How a 12-term congressman is trying to survive the Trump headwinds in Florida
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Page Pate / CNN:
Don't blame Comey for this mess
Don't blame Comey for this mess
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI agents pressed Justice unsuccessfully for probe of Clinton Foundation
FBI agents pressed Justice unsuccessfully for probe of Clinton Foundation
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Comey Is Not the One Whose Unorthodox Actions Are Casting a Cloud over the Election
Comey Is Not the One Whose Unorthodox Actions Are Casting a Cloud over the Election
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Editorials / New York Daily News:
FBI mad bomber James Comey needs to resign
FBI mad bomber James Comey needs to resign
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Deeply Disturbing — James Comey's decision to send his letter …
Deeply Disturbing — James Comey's decision to send his letter …
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Harry Reid's incendiary claim about ‘coordination’ between Donald Trump and Russia — In a letter to FBI Director James B. Comey on Sunday night, outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) says Comey may have broken the law. — And that's not even the most brazen claim in the letter — not by a long shot.
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Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Reid: FBI has ‘explosive information’ about Trump, Russia
Reid: FBI has ‘explosive information’ about Trump, Russia
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Kurt Eichenwald / Newsweek:
DONALD TRUMP'S COMPANIES DESTROYED EMAILS IN DEFIANCE OF COURT ORDERS — U.S. DONALD TRUMP 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HILLARY EMAILS — Over the course of decades, Donald Trump's companies have systematically destroyed or hidden thousands of emails, digital records and paper documents demanded …
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Jugal K. Patel / New York Times:
Voting Early, and in Droves: Nearly 22 Million Ballots Are Already In — With nine days until the general election, almost 22 million people have already voted, through early voting and absentee ballots. — In many states, the number of early voters is lower than at the same point in the 2012 cycle.
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New York Times:
Early Turnout Tilts Toward Democrats in Swing States — Hillary Clinton has established a slim edge over Donald J. Trump in early-voter turnout in several vital swing states, pressing her longstanding advantages in state-level organization and potentially mitigating the fallout from her campaign's latest scrap with the F.B.I.
Scott Clement / Washington Post:
Clinton loses popularity edge in tight race with Trump, new Post-ABC Tracking Poll finds — Registered voters see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in a nearly identical negative light, mirroring a persistently close split in overall vote preference in a new Washington Post-ABC News Tracking Poll.
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Deep Unfavorability for Clinton, Trump Marks the Election's Sharp Divisions (POLL)
Deep Unfavorability for Clinton, Trump Marks the Election's Sharp Divisions (POLL)
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CNN:
Trump stokes skepticism of Colorado voting system — Greeley, Colorado (CNN)Donald Trump for the second day in a row questioned the validity of this swing state's largely mail-in voting system, the latest instance of the Republican nominee expressing skepticism about the legitimacy of the electoral process.
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Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
CNN Stealth Edits Article That Originally Made False Claim Trump Told Supporters To Vote Multiple Times
CNN Stealth Edits Article That Originally Made False Claim Trump Told Supporters To Vote Multiple Times
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Erin McCann / New York Times:
Theaters Open Doors for an Election Worthy of the Big Screen — The dramatic presidential campaign of 2016 has often felt like something beyond even Hollywood's wildest imagination. — So it seems fitting that when this two-year slog toward Election Day finally comes to its conclusion on Nov. 8 …
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Inside Evan McMullin's 10 years undercover in the CIA — Conservative independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin is rising in the polls and stands a fair chance of stealing the red state of Utah from GOP nominee Donald Trump. So it's no surprise that pro-Trump Republicans and others …
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Embattled Issa: I'd advise Clinton if she asked — CARDIFF-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. — For most of Barack Obama's presidency, Rep. Darrell Issa has relished his role as White House enemy No. 1, taunting the president as “corrupt” and even floating the idea of impeachment.
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Brent Griffiths / Politico:
Clinton campaign invokes ‘Daisy Girl’ to attack Trump on nuclear weapons — Hillary Clinton's campaign is hammering Donald Trump over his statements on nuclear weapons in a new ad. And the Democratic nominee is using one of the most recognizable moments in the attack ad arsenal to deliver the blow.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The GOP's Age of Authoritarianism Has Only Just Begun — And it will not end with a Clinton presidency. — There is a fusty old school of thought called the Great Man Theory, which attributes the tides of history to the decisions and character of a handful of fateful men.
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