Short answer: He didn’t have the stones to make a historic decision.
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A weird turn of events put Comey under a particularly bright spotlight.
Before the events of the past week, the way I expected things to work out:
- Comey reads the 1st 14 minutes of his his speech laying out the body of evidence, concluding with a recommendation to indict.
- AG Lynch immediately puts the kabosh on the recommendation, refusing to indict.
- Or, AG Lynch green lights an indictment and President Obama quickly steps in to pardon Hillary “for the good of the country”.
- Hillary continues her campaign to become the first woman president.
Comey would have drawn the correct legal opinion based on the evidence, but the course of history wouldn’t have changed.
But, things didn’t work out that way, and Comey found himself in a much brighter spotlight … and, when the story ends, it won’t be pretty for Comey
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