FBI Director Comey in hot seat in wake of Clinton e-mail announcement

Found on Ars Technica on Monday, 31 October 2016
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James Comey, the FBI director, has been facing intense criticism for days now following his Friday revelations that the bureau has started investigating newly discovered e-mails said to have passed through Hillary Clinton's private server.

Comey told fellow staffers Friday that he was obligated to tell Congress about the renewed inquiry because he had publicly stated months ago that the inquiry was over.

Saying something is wrong, not saying something is wrong too. There's no way he could have done it right. In the end, that's the transparency the politicans always talk about.