“Strategy No. 4: Drop an opposition research bomb on Trump Speaking of which, I often see reporters speculating or predicting that the Clinton campaign is sitting on one or two major pieces of opposition research about Trump, which they’ll leak to the press at a time of maximum strategic advantage. T…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“Strategy No. 3: Let it go This is the opposite of strategy No. 1. Here the Clinton campaign lays low after calculating that the story will die of its own accord. And it may be what we see if the campaign doesn’t see much impact from the FBI news in public and internal polls by early next week. The C…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“Strategy No. 2: Rile up Democratic partisans by attacking Comey and other targets While Clinton herself hasn’t yet attacked Comey’s motivations, her top surrogates and advisors like John Podesta are already doing so. There’s the risk of hypocrisy here given that some of these same Clinton surrogates…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“Strategy No. 1: Demand more details from Comey This was Clinton’s initial strategy during her brief press conference on Friday, where she said that ‘the American people deserve to get the full and complete facts immediately.’ This approach carries a couple of advantages. First, Clinton may reasonabl…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“I’ve heard from people who wonder whether Friday’s news – that FBI director James Comey was investigating additional emails that may be pertinent to Hillary Clinton’s private email server — might have come too late in the campaign to be reflected in the polls, and therefore in our forecast, before E…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“In a letter to Congress, the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said that emails had surfaced in an unrelated case, and that they ‘appear to be pertinent to the investigation.’ Mr. Comey said the F.B.I. was taking steps to ‘determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess th…”— Adam Goldman and Alan Rappeport, nytimes.com
“Federal law enforcement officials said Friday that the new emails uncovered in the closed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server were discovered after the F.B.I. seized electronic devices belonging to Huma Abedin, an aide to Mrs. Clinton, and her husband, Anthony Weiner.”— Adam Goldman and Alan Rappeport, nytimes.com
“This is not a 'reopening' of the email investigation. As a technical matter, it was never closed. Comey letter was sent to Hill 'out of an abundance of caution' to be extra thorough. There is no sense that any of this was due to withholding of evidence. New emails discovered on 'another device.' Whi…”— Pete Williams, twitter.com
“I need to open with a very critical breaking news announcement. The FBI has just sent a letter to Congress informing them that they have discovered new emails pertaining to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s investigation […] I have great respect for the fact that the FBI and DOJ are now wi…”— Donald Trump, donaldjtrump.com
“In the 30-plus years that Bill and Hillary have been in the public eye, we’ve bristled at the way transparency always seems to be an inconvenience to them. They constantly want to work for the public, yet lose their shit when that same public wants accountability. We’re well beyond ‘right-wing consp…”— Ken Crossland, medium.com
“I think Hillary Clinton has operated in the upper-stratosphere of public life for so long, that I generally feel like she doesn’t quite understand the optics of everything she does. She’s obviously a very smart woman, but the cocoon of government and power seems to have skewed her perspective on wha…”— Ken Crossland, medium.com
“The State Department, noticing gaps in their files, actually sent official letters to former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton, asking for additional records. In response, Clinton and her team released 55,000 pages of emails that were relate…”— Ken Crossland, medium.com
“The constant term thrown around is that Clinton was running a secret email server, but this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Hillary Clinton’s email address was visible to anyone who received a message from her — or anyone on her staff. The idea that this was some clandestine move by Clinton to m…”— Ken Crossland, medium.com
“Classification is a strange beast in the government, and the rules aren’t exactly clear-cut. Classification, for the most part, is governed by a small set of guidelines, with human judgment being the most important criteria. The reasoning for classification doesn’t always have to be a great one— sim…”— Ken Crossland, medium.com
“Like most things bad in Hillary Clinton’s life, the email problem can be traced back to her husband, former President Bill Clinton.”— Ken Crossland, medium.com