Then Again, Maybe Not

  How many qualifiers can you count in the latest email claims against Hillary Clinton?
   Scattered in the statements by FBI Director James Comey are phrases like these: The emails may be related, appear to be pertinent, and might be connected to the previous investigation, but we don't know the significance because we have not yet reviewed them and we don't know how long it will take to do that.
   Say what?

   Comey said the FBI found more emails that may be related to the earlier scandal about classified information transmitted on Clinton's email server. The agency says it has found more emails on a computer owned by the ex-husband of a top aide to Clinton. So that makes three degrees of separation: A computer used by Anthony Weiner, who is under investigation for alleged sexual misbehavior with a minor, supposedly held emails to or from Huma Abedin, his wife at the time, who is now a senior aide to Clinton, the Democratic nominee for President.
   Are you confused yet?

   The FBI director won't say whether or if any of the emails to or from Abedin contained classified material relevant to the former Secretary of State, noting that the agency hasn't yet looked at them. Further, with just ten days before Election Day, Comey says he doesn't know when the FBI will review the emails, nor how long that will take.

   Meanwhile, Comey has been criticized for his timing in making the announcement, and Clinton has demanded that he release all the emails found on the Weiner-Abedin computer so voters will know what's what.
   Translation: If you have any evidence, let's see it.
   
   At the same time, Donald Trump has claimed vindication of his charges, notwithstanding the fact that no one has seen any of the emails.
   Also, there is the issue of timing. Comey made his announcement little more than a week before Election Day, and faces accusations of trying to influence the election. But if he held the announcement until after the Election, he would be accused of failing his duty in addition to trying to influence the election.
   Either way, he's a target. But at the root of the issue is this: What, if anything, is on the emails? Do they have any messages containing classified material? The earlier probe by the FBI and Congressional panels failed to turn up any evidence that warranted prosecution, although Clinton did acknowledge poor judgement in using a private server for government business.
   As for current computer flap, there's no indication that Clinton had any contact with Weiner, the former congressman who left office under a cloud of misbehavior, and no evidence that Weiner's former wife used his machine to transmit or receive any classified material.
   In fact, nobody seems to know yet what's on the Weiner machine at all.
   But that hasn't stopped Republicans from claiming there is major proof of Clinton's wrongdoing.
   So there may be something there. Then again, there may not.