Comey still doesn’t even know what was in the emails, whether they were from Clinton, whether they’d ever passed through the Clinton email system. Just that there were some emails. And yet he gives Trump ammunition to lie to his supporters that “they’re making a criminal investigation into Clinton!” The proper order of things is to conclude the investigation, then announce the results. Comey’s actions clearly violated the Hatch law, and probably violated the 4th amendment as well, since he had no business poking into Amedin’s emails as a “fishing expedition” outside of his warrant to investigate Weiner.
Comey still doesn’t even know what was in the emails, whether they were from Clinton, whether they’d ever passed through the Clinton email system. Just that there were some emails. And yet he gives Trump ammunition to lie to his supporters that “they’re making a criminal investigation into Clinton!” The proper order of things is to conclude the investigation, then announce the results. Comey’s actions clearly violated the Hatch law, and probably violated the 4th amendment as well, since he had no business poking into Amedin’s emails as a “fishing expedition” outside of his warrant to investigate Weiner.