The FBI released a tweet from an account that had not been active for a year. The tweet contained a file about a controversial pardon that Bill Clinton granted on his last day in office to Marc Rich, a financier who was living abroad to avoid arrest.

Why now? The FBI claimed it was an automatic response to Freedom of Information requests. But coming on the heels of Director James Comey’s announcement last Friday that he planned to review emails on Anthony Weiner’s computer that may or may not be significant, the latest data dump was strange to say the least. Once again, the agency ignored well-known Department protocols against meddling in elections. Does Comey have a vendetta against Clinton?

The story says:

“The Twitter account used to publicize the Rich files, an official FBI account called­@FBIRecordsVault, had been dormant for more than a year until Sunday, when it began to tweet links to archived documents. They included records related to Fred Trump, the father of the GOP nominee, which were posted to the website in early October. Those records included eight­ ­pages of largely biographical details about the elder Trump, much of which appeared to be compiled by the FBI in 1988. The agency advertised the Trump records by tweeting: “Fred C. Trump (1905-1999) was a real estate developer and philanthropist….” presumably it contained no reference to the Justice Department lawsuit against Fred and his son Donald for racial discrimination in renting apartments in the 1970s.

It continues:

“This week’s release of the Rich files demonstrates how many of the players in the current Hillary Clinton drama played roles in Clinton-related battles of the past. 
Comey, for instance, as a young prosecutor in New York, helped lead the case against Rich. Later, as U.S. attorney, he led the office that handled the investigation into the Clinton pardon from early 2002 to the end of 2003.
Former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr., a Clinton backer who this week wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that Comey made a “serious error” in announcing the resumption of the email probe, was deputy attorney general at the time of the pardon and acknowledged that he had been contacted directly by Rich’s attorney. The pardon was criticized in part for bypassing an established process in which Justice lawyers review applications for merit. Holder’s name was one of only a few not blacked out in the redacted files released this week.
Comey eventually supported Holder’s nomination for attorney general but told senators in 2008 that he had been “stunned” by the Rich pardon and that Holder’s actions in the case reflected a “huge misjudgment.”

Comey is rapidly undermining the FBI’s reputation for nonpartisanship. What else will the FBI release in the next week?