1. The FBI receives thousands of requests that are processed on a first in, first out basis.
2. By law, FOIA materials that have been requested three or more times are posted electronically to the FBI’s public reading room shortly after they are processed.
3. Per the standard procedure for FOIA, these materials became available for release and were posted automatically and electronically to the FBI’s public reading room in accordance with the law and established procedures.

Here we see numerous attempts to appeal to procedures and law; but none of them explains why someone in the FBI decided consciously to fix the twitter feed one week before a national election.  It is only after someone decides to fix this feed that it begins to automatically release information.  Fixing this feed was not automatic; the feed was down for a year.  This was not a matter of a first in, first out basis.  This was not a matter of law: there is no law that would have prevented waiting until after the election to release this material.  This was not a matter of standard procedure for FOIA.  This procedure apparently allows the feed to be down for a year.

The answer provided by the bureau and the release of the information both raise psychological issues.  First, the fact that the answer cites three different levels of policy, procedure and law, but does not provide any explanation for why the twitter feed was fixed one week before the election, demonstrates that the bureau feels guilty about fixing the twitter feed, really guilty.  The fact that the FBI is releasing information about a Bill Clinton pardon one week before the election is a sign that those forces opposed to Hillary Clinton in the FBI are so devoted they will go into the vault in pull out information about her husband 15 years ago to make her look bad.  This tweet from the FBI is evidence of Trumplandia and the revolution in the FBI described by Rudy Giuliani.

Fixing this twitter feed one week before a national election is a violation of the Hatch Act. The FBI should not be releasing any information relating to either of the candidates so close to an election.  This point is made compelling by Richard Painter, the former chief White House ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007, during the Bush administration, in an article in the New York Times explaining why he brought a complaint against the FBI to the Office of Special Counsel.