When will Hillary Clinton give up her candidacy ? Part 2

Mr. Comey is going to have some explaining to do.

You state that as if you actually know what your talking about.

The town will honor an Election Day pause and then, much like with the Christmas truce of World War I, madness will soon resume. If Hillary Clinton is the next president, she might have to deal with a Congress gone criminally insane. It has become a ravenous parliamentary beast determined to ignore the most pressing concerns and instead traffic in investigations. She might even be impeached.

That’s a terrible thing to say, and I can’t imagine any columnist at any time in U.S. history writing such a sentence.

As it turned out, law enforcement officials said, there was no need to review all of the emails, only Ms. Abedin’s. Those emails numbered in the thousands, and even many of those were duplicates of messages that had been looked at previously, officials said.

How did the F.B.I. read 650,000 emails so quickly?

Taking to Twitter, Michael T. Flynn, a former Army lieutenant general and top Trump adviser, declared it “IMPOSSIBLE” that the F.B.I. could have scanned 650,000 emails in eight days.

But that figure is misleading. When F.B.I. agents seized Mr. Weiner’s laptop, they did discover about 650,000 emails, but only some of them belonged to Ms. Abedin, agents found. They realized that her emails might be relevant to the F.B.I.’s completed investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s use of a private email server, but those were only a small subset of the total.

So how many emails were reviewed?

The F.B.I. has not said precisely, but officials have placed the number in the thousands.

Reading thousands of emails in eight days still seems like a lot of work.

That number got even smaller relatively quickly. Many of the emails were copies of messages that agents had examined earlier while investigating Mrs. Clinton and her aides. Again, it’s not clear how many were duplicates, but law enforcement officials say it was a substantial number. Filtering software can ferret out duplicates from far larger databases than Mr. Weiner’s hard drive. That could have sped up the review, because the duplicates didn’t need to be examined again, but F.B.I. employees would still have had to personally vet new emails.

Why didn’t the government tell us this would only take a week?

The F.B.I. was reluctant to predict how long the review would take, repeatedly trying to lower the public’s expectation that it could finish before Election Day. Even though the number of emails seemed manageable early in the week, there was a chance that agents would discover something along the way that would require extensive follow-up.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Mr. Comey assigned dozens of agents and analysts to the effort, including investigators who had originally worked on the case. Dozens worked around the clock for a week. Law enforcement officials said the review was completed Sunday morning.

RUSH LIMBAUGH (HOST): If [Trump] genuinely loses this thing, he's going to concede it. The fact they're out there trying to tell people that he won't accept defeat no matter what is again, another attempt to taint the guy. It's Hillary Clinton who is tainted, it's the Democrats who are tainted, and by virtue of historical experience I can say that. It's a non-story, nonstarter. Now the lack of Republican support for Trump, now that we can get our teeth into. And I'm telling you, no matter whether he wins or loses folks, there is a civil war coming on the Republican side of the aisle, and it's going to be big. Whether he wins or loses. It'll take a different form or direction depending on whether he wins or loses, but it is going to happen.