"How one Congressman punked the media on the FBI letter about Clinton’s emails"

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FBI Director James Comey alerted Republican members of Congress on Friday that bureau investigators would review some additional emails that might relate to Hillary Clinton’s email server. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee who has already vowed to spend the next several years investigating Clinton should she be elected president, quickly rushed to announce the news, falsely claiming that the case had been “reopened.”
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-chaffetz....596e3daww

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This article has some further background on Chaffetz's malfeasance:

http://reverbpress.com/politics/this-is-...ys-emails/

So, by using a standard clerical missive from the FBI to send the mainstream media on a wild goose chase, Chaffetz demonstrated that he’s willing to use–some might say abuse–the power of his position to rattle Hillary Clinton’s cage to such an extent that the stock market takes a significant dive. Chaffetz is showing he can turn the media against Clinton and send ripples through an election. Chaffetz is showing the Freedom Caucus that he can be their warlord of partisan hostage taking. Chaffetz showed that he can be the House Speaker the extreme right wants.

Jason Chaffetz just announced Friday that he is running to topple Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House in November and the entire mainstream media chased a shiny object and failed to connect the dots. You heard it here first.

He's running for the position of extremist house leader in charge of continuing the tea party charge to bring Washington to a halt.