The GOP has conspiracy theories about Huma Abedin whereas she is a Muslim and, of course, a good percentage of them are batshit crazy. She has been subject to FOIA requests for her emails a year ago, she was forced to testify before Congress about Benghazi about which she had little first hand knowledge. Being married to Weiner didn’t help and of course Trump has a thing about him too. Trump has mentioned Abedin. Her also having done some work for The Clinton Foundation and Teneo ties into it too. It all fits into their crazy conspiratorial view of everything. So, of course, someone here got to Comey and said be transparent now or risk an investigation you withheld information later (and risk possible charges). He did the CYA thing. Of course the GOP knew Weiner was under investigation. It only makes sense Huma may have used his computer occasionally and perhaps at some point logged onto her email….boom there you go (in the GOP’s conniving minds).
Here is what they figured out, from there we can demand of the FBI, thru back channels, to take a look at Weiner’s computer (which they know they have because they know he is under a totally unrelated investigation) right before the election with an explicit or implicit threat to Comey if you don’t, you’ll be the one in the prosecutorial sites. But the key is wait until close enough to the election to not give the FBI time to look at it thoroughly but force him to acknowledge and confirm or deny they have information on Weiner’s computer they’ll look at going forward. Once they demand and force Comey to confirm that, they have their letter they can drop for an October Surprise the investigation is re-opened (even though whatever is on the Weiner computer is likely just duplicates of what they already had turned over from HRC herself). That’s what happened today with this being leaked by Congressional GOP members after Comey sent them the letter.
This was a total set up with Trump no doubt. The Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz obviously reached a deal with Trump. Who knows what he was promised, but it is no coincidence he revoked his un-endorsement of Trump yesterday and is Chair of the main Committee Comey wrote today. This stinks to high heaven folks, as does the obsession with Abedin. The Trump folks did pull a fast one here and it worked (for now). I got to admit that. But its obviously all bullshit. The aim is to cause enough confusion to create a media frenzy and they succeeded. They somewhat had Comey over the barrel here. Hopefully, he clarifies it is all duplicates but they’re taking a look anyways. If he also puts out there it was pointed out to either him (or underlings) and pressured to act on by Congressional partisans that will help. But its probably more likely the pressure came in subtle fashion when a GOP friendly agent working on the Weiner investigation brought it to him. It wouldn’t have to explicitly be said you better look into this before the election and publicly acknowledge you are or else. Comey would just know that and do the math. The wink wink of the whole thing is everyone knows there is nothing new almost 99.9% probable on Weiner’s computer, its all duplicates, but they forced Comey to CYA.
For more very general background on Huma Abedina and the right's constant investigation of her, here is her Wikipedia page. The good news in, if this can be sorted out quickly and in an understandable way to the American people and as part of the crazy theories and desire for political investigations the GOP has had for decades, and Trump has embraced, it could significantly backfire on the GOP.
