FBI document release straight out of Clinton/Whitewater/Lewinsky playbook

The Friday document drop, a staple of former President Bill Clinton's scandal-plagued administration, is back just in time for his wife's potential presidency.

The FBI's pre-Labor Day release of embarrassing details from its investigation of Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department emails and her once secret email server also is just the latest sign that the Obama administration is working to protect her from drowning in media criticism.

"It seems pretty clear that the Obama political appointees at the FBI are doing everything they can to bury the news on these Clinton emails in order to help her win in November. This was a direct middle finger given to the news media when a savvier move would have been to dump it all yesterday," said Republican strategist Ron Bonjean of Rokk Solutions.

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