According to a report in the New Yorker, James Comey, Big Kahuna of the FBI, went full-on cowboy in releasing details of the new Clinton email inquiry. Apparently, the Department of Justice advised him not to release the information just days before the presidential election.

Gosh. I wonder if the same advice would have been given if it was Donald Trump who was being investigated by the FBI.

Comey explained his decision in a letter to FBI employees:

"We don't ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed. I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record."

The DoJ  – and by DoJ I mean Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who famously had a secret meeting on an airport tarmac with Bill Clinton to talk about her non-existent grandchildren – is implying that Comey is not playing fair and that the move is inconsistent with the rules which have been designed to make it seem like they are not interfering in an election.

Here's Comey's letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Really?

The DoJ thinks that the public shouldn't know that the person they may be voting for is being investigated by the FBI?

That's the most absurd thing I have heard for quite some time, and considering this election, that's really saying something.

This is from the New Yorker report, emphasis mine.