Why is the FBI releasing old Bill Clinton files one week before the election?

By Joan McCarter
Tuesday Nov 01, 2016 · 1:44 PM EDT

Is James Comey trying to put his thumb on the scale of this election? It sure as hell looks that way. Consider this:

 FBI Records Vault ? @FBIRecordsVault
William J. Clinton Foundation: This initial release consists of material from the FBI's files related to the Will... https://vault.fbi.gov/william-j.-clinton-foundation …
12:00 PM - 1 Nov 2016

That's the FBI randomly making files from it's vault public. This one just happens to be hundreds of pages from an investigation closed in 2005 into the William J. Clinton Foundation and "a 2001 FBI investigation into the pardon of Marc Rich (1934-2013), aka Marcell David Reich, by President Clinton in 2001."

About that investigation.

Later, as the powerful U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York during the George W. Bush administration, Comey oversaw the tail end of an investigation into Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich. No charges were ever filed in that case, nor was there a public explanation of the office’s findings.

No charges filed. No public explanation of the office's findings. Until they release the archives today? In an investigation in which no chargers where ever filed. One week before the election? Curious timing, huh?

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