emptywheel

My take is that Comey's press conference on the Clinton investigation was a very bad idea and also that releasing information on an ongoing counterintelligence investigation involving the Trump campaign would have been a very bad idea too

"Two wrongs don't make a right" - Reinhold Niebuhr

But one wrong radically alters the nation's history--and with *no* conceivable justification . . . not even factors in its favor (the October letter).

Of course. But the latter might have altered it as well. If the principle is that you don't want FBI to be making announcements about investigations when they shouldn't, it seems to me that this norm should hold regardless of potential effect. It's not a utilitarian principle