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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 …
Hillary Clinton 2016:
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 …
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
The FBI Director's Unworthy Choice
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Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
James Comey Just Unmasked Himself
James Comey Just Unmasked Himself
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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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Page Pate / CNN:
Don't blame Comey for this mess
Don't blame Comey for this mess
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNN severs ties with Donna Brazile — CNN says it is “completely uncomfortable” with hacked emails showing former contributor and interim DNC chair Donna Brazile sharing questions with the Clinton campaign before a debate and a town hall during the Democratic primary, and has accepted her resignation.
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
CNN ‘uncomfortable’ with apparent leaks to Clinton campaign, cuts ties with Brazile — CNN is “completely uncomfortable” with a former contributor's relationship with the Hillary Clinton — campaign and has cut ties with Donna Brazile, a network spokesman said Monday.
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
New Email Shows Donna Brazile Also Gave Clinton Questions Before CNN Presidential Debate
New Email Shows Donna Brazile Also Gave Clinton Questions Before CNN Presidential Debate
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Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
WikiLeaks email suggests Brazile sent debate question to Clinton camp
WikiLeaks email suggests Brazile sent debate question to Clinton camp
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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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Katie McHugh / Breitbart:
Team Trump: Early Voting Numbers Show The Donald on Warpath to Victory
Team Trump: Early Voting Numbers Show The Donald on Warpath to Victory
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Michael P. McDonald / The Huffington Post:
Early Voting Stability Despite News Volatility
Early Voting Stability Despite News Volatility
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Donald Trump is refusing to pay his campaign pollster three-quarters of a million dollars — Donald Trump's hiring of pollster Tony Fabrizio in May was viewed as a sign that the real estate mogul was finally bringing seasoned operatives into his insurgent operation.
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Trump: Thank You Anthony Weiner! Good Job Huma! — At a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Donald Trump comments on the latest twist in the Hillary Clinton email saga. — “Thank you, Huma,” he declared to Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin. “Good job, Huma.” — To her husband he said: “Thank you, Anthony Weiner!”
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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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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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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Deep Unfavorability for Clinton, Trump Marks the Election's Sharp Divisions (POLL) — Likely voters see Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump equally unfavorably, with a nearly complete partisan split in views of the two — testament both to the unprecedented unpopularity of the candidates …
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Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute — Indiana — Young Catches Up to Bayh for Senate; Trump Widens Lead for President — Democrat stays ahead in governor's race — West Long Branch, NJ - It no longer looks like Democrats can count on Indiana for an easy “plus one” …
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Clinton's critics know she's guilty, they're just trying to decide what she's guilty of — The Prime Directive driving bad Clinton coverage. — The latest Hillary Clinton email revelations arose out of an unrelated investigation into Anthony Weiner's sexting.
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
NAACP Sues North Carolina Over Alleged Voter Purge Targeting Black Voters — The North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, along with a handful of individual voters, sued the state's elections board and three county elections boards Monday over an alleged voter purge that it claims disproportionately affected African Americans.
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Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:
Study Finds Racial Discrimination by Uber and Lyft Drivers — Researchers suggest anonymity for passengers hailing a ride as a possible solution. — Drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. in Boston canceled rides for men with black-sounding names more than twice as often as for other men.
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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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