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Resignation Letters Piled up at the FBI – Comey Agonized, Then Re-Opened the Investigation

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">After mounting pressure from FBI agents and the recent email leak&comma; FBI Director James Comey made the decision to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton&rsquo&semi;s private email server&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apparently ever since he closed the case in July&comma; many of Comey&rsquo&semi;s employees have been in &ldquo&semi;mutiny&comma;&rdquo&semi; according to author Ed Klein in an article for Britain&rsquo&semi;s <em>Daily Mail&period;<&sol;em> &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;The atmosphere at the FBI has been toxic ever since Jim announced last July that he wouldn&rsquo&semi;t recommend an indictment against Hillary&comma; said Klein&rsquo&semi;s source&comma; who has known Comey for almost 20 years and is a close family friend&period; &ldquo&semi;Some people&comma; including department heads&comma; stopped talking to Jim&comma; and even ignored his greetings when they passed him in the hall They felt that he betrayed them and brought disgrace on the bureau by letting Hillary off with a slap on the wrist&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Following his decision to not indict Hillary&comma; a stack of resignation letters from agents started to pile up on his desk&period; The source also said that Comey had agonized over this decision with his wife&comma; Patrice&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;He&rsquo&semi;s been ignoring the resignation letters in the hope that he could find a way of remedying the situation&comma;&rdquo&semi; said the source&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But&comma; the recent WikiLeaks release and the new emails discovered seperate investigation gave him just the reason to reopen the investigation&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;When new emails that appeared to be related to Hillary&rsquo&semi;s personal email server turned up in a computer used by &lbrack;her close aide&rsqb; Huma Abedin and &lbrack;Abedin&rsquo&semi;s disgraced husband&comma;&rsqb; Anthony Weiner&comma; Comey jumped at the excuse to reopen the investigation&comma;&rdquo&semi; said the source&period; &ldquo&semi;The people he trusts the most have been the angriest at him&period; And that includes his wife&comma; Pat&period; She kept urging him to admit that he had been wrong when he refused to press charges against the former secretary of state&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Comey has taken an emotional toll since his July ruling&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;He talks about the damage that he&rsquo&semi;s done to himself and the institution &lbrack;of the FBI&rsqb;&comma; and how he&rsquo&semi;s been shunned by the men and women who he admires and work for him&period; It&rsquo&semi;s taken a tremendous toll on him&period; It shattered his ego&comma;&rdquo&semi; said the source&period; &ldquo&semi;He looks like he&rsquo&semi;s aged 10 years in the past four months&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But&comma; Comey&rsquo&semi;s recent decision to reopen the case isn&rsquo&semi;t only to right a wrong&period; &ldquo&semi;He was also worried that after the presidential election&comma; Republicans in Congress would mount a probe of how he had granted Hillary political favoritism&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes Klein&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Allegedly&comma; Obama disapproves of Comey&rsquo&semi;s recent move&period; &ldquo&semi;Lynch and Obama haven&rsquo&semi;t contacted Jim directly&comma;&rdquo&semi; said the source&comma; &ldquo&semi;but they&rsquo&semi;ve made it crystal clear through third parties that they disapprove of his effort to save face&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So what&&num;8217&semi;s next for the investgation&quest; <em>CNN<&sol;em> has said that FBI is tyring to wrap up the investigation prior to the election&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The emails were found as part of a separate criminal investigation as FBI agents in New York were analyzing a laptop used by Weiner&comma; who had been accused of sending sexually explicit messages to an underage girl&period; Since the Clinton-related emails were found while investigating another case&comma; the FBI needed a separate warrant to examine the news emails&comma;&&num;8221&semi; writes <em>ABC News&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em>&&num;8220&semi;Federal agents discovered the emails weeks ago&comma; but presented the findings to FBI Director James Comey last Thursday&period; On Friday&comma; Comey sent a letter to key members of Congress informing them of the update&period; That sparked a frenzy within the Clinton campaign and immediate backlash against Comey&comma; as lawmakers and former officials on both sides of the aisle demanded for a more complete understanding of the new information&period; It is also long-standing DOJ tradition to steer clear of potentially influential investigative actions so close to an election&period; On Sunday&comma; the FBI obtained the appropriate warrant and began reviewing thousands of emails&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let&rsquo&semi;s hope that this time&comma; Clinton gets much more than a slap on the wrist&period; Comey is showing signs of major regret&comma; so hopefully he doesn&rsquo&semi;t let the corrupt DNC sway his investigation again&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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