WASHINGTON ― If Daniel C. Richman, an adviser to James Comey, were writing this story about the FBI director’s recent disclosure that the bureau was reviewing newly discovered emails in the Hillary Clinton probe, it would include a sentence like this right up top:“We don’t know what’s in them, and it’s entirely possible that there’s nothing in them. Don’t change your assumptions based on complete uncertainty.”Richman, a professor at Columbia Law School and a former federal prosecutor, told The Huffington Post he thinks media outlets have been “really poorly” covering the Clinton email news since last Friday. That’s the day Comey sent a short letter to members of Congress stating that the bureau had come across emails that may or may not be “significant” to the FBI’s investigation into Clinton’s use of a personal email server as secretary of state. Comey, in a note to FBI employees that day, acknowledged that his letter could “create a misleading impression” and that there was “significant risk of being misunderstood.” Six days later, it’s pretty clear that’s the case.

Source: Huffington Post November 03, 2016 19:50 UTC