Just to throw something else out here... if there are indeed no new emails to see, then why would the FBI be pulling overlapping, round-the-clock 16-hour shifts to evaluate them? First priority would be new stuff... if there’s nothing new, then they could almost immediately have said so and Comey would have cover to say ‘nothing has changed.’
BTTT
After eliminating dups they will match to what they already have. That can all done programmatically. Then they have to start searching by keywords. Then the readers read the hits. The readers have to have clearances.
[...if there are indeed no new emails to see, then why would the FBI be pulling overlapping, round-the-clock 16-hour shifts to evaluate them?”
Because the NYPD and NY FBI Field/US Attorney’s offices have seen the emails and related evidence, and they don’t give rat’s-ass one about the politics of Comey, Obama, Clinton, Weiner or Abedin.
They have seen the vile crimes, and they have retained the proof. So the FBI can either save face, and their asses, by doing the job we Goddamn pay them to do, or get the hell out of the way.
It’s coming out either way and the guilty are going down. Capiche?