Election Week Whoppers

The FBI has obtained a warrant to search newly discovered emails on Anthony Weiner’s computer (these could be relevant to the earlier investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails).

+ Here’s a guide for those perplexed by the email investigation. (And if you’re not perplexed, you’re not doing it right.)

+ Regardless of which side you’re on, it’s clear that this discussion of potential evidence a few days before an election is unusual. And that makes it par for the course in 2016. The Atlantic’s James Fallows on the destruction of norms.

+ Here’s my take on the email saga: There’s supposed to be a layer between all the noise and the voting public: The media. Even with all the attacks on their credibility, you still count on them to ingest the firehose of endless data, analyze it, and spit out a version of day’s events that makes some sense and has some reality-based context. But they failed you. Miserably. The First Rough Draft of History is Just Way Too Rough.