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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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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: How a 12-term congressman is trying to survive the Trump headwinds in Florida — THE BIG IDEA: — WINTER PARK, Florida—October has been full of surprises. Donald Trump's 1995 tax records came out on the 1st of the month. The video of the Republican nominee bragging …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Encourages His Supporters To Vote Twice — The GOP nominee told backers in Colorado to vote in person, even if they'd already voted by mail. — National Political Reporter, The Huffington Post — GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump frequently complains about the possibility of …
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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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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 …
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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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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