Some desperate leaks before Trump shuts the investigation down:

American law enforcement and intelligence agencies are examining intercepted communications and financial transactions as part of a broad investigation into possible links between Russian officials and associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump, including his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, current and former senior American officials said. The continuing counterintelligence investigation means that Mr. Trump will take the oath of office on Friday with his associates under investigation and after the intelligence agencies concluded that the Russian government had worked to help elect him. As president, Mr. Trump will oversee those agencies and have the authority to redirect or stop at least some of these efforts. […] The F.B.I. is leading the investigations, aided by the National Security Agency, the C.I.A. and the Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit. The investigators have accelerated their efforts in recent weeks but have found no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing, the officials said. One official said intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House. […] Representatives of the agencies involved declined to comment. Of the half-dozen current and former officials who confirmed the existence of the investigations, some said they were providing information because they feared the new administration would obstruct their efforts. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the cases.

Serwer:

October 2016 vs January 2017 pic.twitter.com/c1TRuiyoD5 — Mazel Tov Cocktail (@AdamSerwer) January 20, 2017

There were FBI investigations related to both candidates in October. The FBI, fully aware of the consequences, only made one public. — Mazel Tov Cocktail (@AdamSerwer) January 20, 2017

Even if you think HRC ran the worst campaign ever, that level of interference by an immensely powerful domestic spy agency should alarm you. — Mazel Tov Cocktail (@AdamSerwer) January 20, 2017

And just so we all know what happened: the FBI didn't just only expose HRC. FBI sources also went to the NYT to run interference for Trump. — Mazel Tov Cocktail (@AdamSerwer) January 20, 2017

That Oct headline only happened because sources in the FBI wanted everyone to believe that Trump was in the clear re: Russia. Only reason. — Mazel Tov Cocktail (@AdamSerwer) January 20, 2017

And it’s not just that the FBI chose to inform the public about one, and only one, ongoing investigation. The investigation that the FBI did the inform the public about 1)served the longstanding partisan interests of the director and 2)was utterly trivial, and in the most decisive intervention there was absolutely no relevant new information about it. There is no possible justification for violating norms and rules to inform the public about one and not the other except to put a thumb on the scale for Trump.

Let’s put this simply and clearly: the FBI stole the election, on behalf of the minority candidate. Trump is not a legitimate president and should not be treated as such. And let us note as well that the media outlets who chose to give Comey’s letter saturation coverage are accessories after the fact.

…rewenzo in comments: