Update: What I meant by “delay,” in the title is delay of revelations about Trump/Russia until after the Election by what Steele called a “cabal” blocking the Russia probe and pushing the HRC email probe.
The two primary outside factors contributing to the election of Trump were:
(1) over-coverage of the investigation into HRC’s emails, culminating with the Comey October 28 memo; and
(2) under-coverage of the Trump/Russia Investigation
Recently, evidence of a connection between these two factors has emerged.
Last week, Rachel Maddow did a couple of stories on the demotion of a senior FBI intelligence agent to “Human Resources” at the agency. Rachel wondered if the demotion signaled some kind of problem with the TrumpRussia investigation.
Yastrablyensky at Rectification of Names has a different theory, supported by other sources, including Zev Shalev in his blog, Narativ.
1. The Indpendent reported on January 2017 Christopher Steele, author of the eponymous Dossier believed “a cabal within the Bureau blocked a thorough inquiry into Mr Trump, focusing instead on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.”
2. Blackwater mercenary Erik Prince (and future “Viceroy” of Afghanistan?) claimed on Nov. 4, 2016 :
the NYPD forced Comey to act threatening to take revenge action if he didn’t. “The amount of garbage that they found in these emails, of criminal activity by Hillary,* by her immediate circle, and even by other Democratic members of Congress was so disgusting they gave it to the FBI, and they said, ‘We’re going to go public with this if you don’t reopen the investigation and you don’t do the right thing with timely indictments,’” Prince explained.
3. Rudy Giuliani, after the Comey email memo also boasted, admitting:
discussing the case with active agents. “The other rumor that I get is that there’s a kind of revolution going on inside the FBI about the original conclusion [not to charge Clinton] being completely unjustified and almost a slap in the face to the FBI’s integrity,” said Giuliani. “I know that from former agents. I know that even from a few active agents.
Rectification of Names concludes:
it looks more and more likely in this sense that that story, of rogue FBI agents plotting with Giuliani and Erik Prince and the Trump campaign to steal the election, is true. And Mueller knows it, and we'll all know it soon.
As an aficionado of “grand theories,” I really like this story.
Stay tuned.
*of course, there was no “garbage” or “crimiinal activity” but the damage was done.