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Tamara Keith

Special counsel's report on classified documents has echoes of the 2016 election

FBI Director James Comey makes a statement at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., on July 5, 2016. Comey said 110 emails sent or received on Hillary Clinton's server contained classified information. (Cliff Owen/AP)

An investigation in the middle of a presidential campaign wraps up with no charges, and yet the words of the investigator hurt far more than they help. That is a scenario that appears to be playing out this week with special counsel Robert Hur deciding President Biden shouldn't be charged with willfully retaining classified documents, while also including language in his report about Biden's at-times-faulty memory, aggravating a preexisting political challenge for Biden.

For people who were involved with Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign, the echoes of then-FBI Director James Comey's press conference on July 5, 2016, are hard to miss.

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