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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 …
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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 …
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Politicus USA, Raw Story and Balloon Juice


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.
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Washington Post, The Lid and The Right Scoop

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.

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 …
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Politico, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Refinery29 and Blue Virginia


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 …
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Hot Air, twitchy.com, Politicus USA, The Root and Mediaite


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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Washington Post, Business Insider, The Hill, Observer, AOL, Media Matters for America, twitchy.com, Vox and The Last Refuge


James Comey Broke with Loretta Lynch and Justice Department Tradition — On Friday, James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, acting independently of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, sent a letter to Congress saying that the F.B.I. had discovered e-mails …
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The Daily Beast, Raw Story, Guardian, Bloomberg, Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Lid, Lawyers, Guns & Money, RedState, Vox, The Last Refuge, Occupy Democrats, Breitbart, neo-neocon, NPR, BizPac Review, Hot Air, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, The Week, Towleroad and Booman Tribune


HILLARY CLINTON'S EMAILS: THE REAL REASON THE FBI IS REVIEWING MORE OF THEM
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NewsHounds blog, Occupy Democrats, Daily News Bin, TheStreet.com, Hullabaloo, Gothamist, Raw Story, RedState, Law News, Washington Post and Salon

Donald Trump Says Clinton Has ‘Nobody to Blame But Herself’
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RedState and Associated Press

Clinton campaign wages new war against James Comey
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WTVR-TV, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, twitchy.com, myfox8.com and FOX6Now.com

DC Attorney: FBI Never Destroyed Laptops Of Clinton Aides
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The Other McCain, New York Times, BizPac Review and Slate

Lynch advised Comey against letter to Congress: report
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RedState, WND, Guardian, BizPac Review, Joe.My.God., Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, The Gateway Pundit, alan.com and Washington Post

Anger, disbelief in Clinton camp
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The Huffington Post, Power Line, ABC News and Vox Popoli

With less than two weeks to go, this thing's not over yet
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Washington Post

Clinton Camp Slams FBI Director for Going ‘Light on Facts, Heavy on Innuendo’ in Letter on Email Probe
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FiveThirtyEight and Mediaite

What We Know About the FBI's Latest Review of Hillary Clinton's Emails
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News and BizPac Review

FBI Found “Tens Of Thousands Of Emails” Belonging To Huma Abedin On Weiner's Laptop
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RedState, New York Times, Politico, Bloomberg, BizPac Review, Mediaite, alan.com, Breitbart and Liberal Values

EXCLUSIVE: Comey memo to FBI staffers says election, timing required disclosure of renewed probe
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BizPac Review, The Right Scoop, CNN, Fox News Insider, Independent Journal Review, Scripting News, Townhall.com, Infowars, CANNONFIRE and New York Times

Five takeaways from Comey's October surprise
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Washington Post and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

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


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.
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Raw Story, Patterico's Pontifications, Politicus USA, Balloon Juice, Joe.My.God. and alan.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 …
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Washington Free Beacon


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.
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CBS News
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Des Moines Woman Says She Voted Twice For Trump Because “The Polls Are Rigged”

Trump supporter charged with voting twice in Iowa
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The Right Scoop, Hullabaloo, New York Magazine, TalkLeft, The Week and alan.com


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.
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Princeton Election Consortium


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 …
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Guardian, New York Magazine and Fox News Insider

Final Days — Trump's advisers are working hard to plan their own futures while riding out the roller-coaster end of the campaign. — “I'm on the battlefield right now, which is amazing,” Donald Trump said as he surveyed the Gettysburg National Military Park. “When you talk about historic, this is the whole ballgame.”
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Politicus USA, Raw Story, Business Insider and alan.com