I'm not a fan of speculation...it rhymes with that other word that ends in "-------ation," and many times both actions yield the same results.
Speculation is all over the map as to what he's doing, why he's doing it, when he's doing it, and as in that "-------ation" word above, that's all we have right now. Some people believe he's going to indict "the day after the convention." That sounds more like the plot of a direct-to-DVD Grade Z political "thriller" you'd find streaming on Netflix.
That said...when my mother passed away, I was executor of her estate. California probate is among the worst in the land...it chewed up 16 miserable months of my life. I drive to the attorney, sign a piece of paper, she signs it, it goes to the judge, the judge signs it, then the attorney calls me and tells me I have to drive up to sign another piece of paper. Over and over, for 16 months. You do not get all of your papers in a packet. You sign them one at a time. It is a process.
What I knew going into this, as I had my family yapping daily like hungry baby birds "Where'smymoneyWhere'smymoneyWhere'smymoneyWhere'smymoneyWhere'smymoneyWhere'smymoney," is that an attorney works a lot slower if you attempt to climb up on their back and take them for a ride.
And the people who have played "Call it, Skinner" with Comey probably haven't made him work any faster, either.
People who are in a position of authority do not like to be told to "go faster" by people who are in a position of lesser (or no) power. It's the law or aerodynamics or reciprocity or any label you'd like to put on it, but I have seen it over and over and over again in my personal and professional life. That's why Skinner hasn't "called it." It's his Website, and no matter how many times he's told what to do, he does his job and will "call it" when he's ready to call it, and not before. I respect him tremendously for that. I know I've pissed him off a few times, unintentionally, but that doesn't mean I don't respect him. I do.
I personally think she's just going to walk away unscathed from all of this.
Why?
Luck of the Clintons, a phone call from Obama to Comey, I don't know.
I always thought that my career, before starting my own business in 2001, was intensely "political." It's still that way, except now I decide which course the politics are going to take. But in those early decades, I was privy to all kinds of self-serving, back-stabbing, throw-them-under-the-bus conversations behind closed doors.
I don't know enough about Comey to know how much of a "man of principle" he is. His statements have consistently been along the lines of "We are going to do this by the book and it's done when it's done." Has the press, "clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon," slowed him down? He might be trying to teach a lesson here, he might have a political agenda, he might just be doing his job.
"-------ation."
I personally do not believe anything is going to happen to throw a game-changer into the November race, and I most emphatically do not say that as a "Clinton supporter," because I'm not.
I've just seen these things play out far too many times. I think she's just going to walk away to the sound of "huzza" from her followers.
If and when Sanders concedes, it should be his own decision, not someone else's. A lot of people are salivating over his meeting with Obama. More "-------ation." But as a Sanders supporter, I don't see waiting for the FBI report as him playing a winning hand, because I don't see a winner here other than Clinton.
Just my opinion.
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