Comey knew no later than June that Russian officials were trying to ratf**k the election on behalf of Trump.
		At no point during the campaign did Comey inform the public about what Russia was doing.
		He also knew that the “scandal” surrounding Clinton’s email server was the Trump line of attack that was getting the most traction in the media.
		His response was…to violate norms and/or departmental rules to issue multiple prejudicial statements about Clinton’s email server. 


The last of these statements was a letter prematurely informing Congress about an investigation that had virtually no chance of revealing material information about Clinton less than two weeks before the election. 

We can perhaps call this response “the Russians can’t ratf**k the election if we ratf**k it first!”