And these rumors are inextricably tied with the Comey letter bomb, since the Russians had been working all along to leak info about the FBI and Hillary. Let's assume the rumors that Hillary is upset with the Obama administration are true.

I think the Obama administration should have ordered James Comey not to go public; or else immediately announced that same day (or at most, a day later) that the meta data had already showed the emails were duplicates (it would have taken a few hours for a computer to figure that out.) They let it drag out for 8 more days, while voting was going on, and that was a terrible mistake.