James Comey finds himself at the center of the bitterest, most divisive presidential election in memory, a fate he sought to avoid.  Having decided not to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton in July, his hand was evidently forced when agents brought him news of the existence of a vast trove of emails related to Hillary Clinton’s home-brew server.  Voluntarily or not, Comey is now a key player in the highest-stakes political game our Constitution offers, and he is playing his cards like a riverboat gambler. Two pieces of news yesterday seem to indicate that a complicated game is being played by Comey, now that he understands what he is in the midst of.  Reuters reports that Comey, in the expression used by the U.K. Daily Mail, called Loretta Lynch’s bluff when she tried to get him to keep secret the discovery of hundreds of thousands of emails. An astonishing confrontation between the attorney-general and the FBI director over Hillary...(Read Full Post)