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Today’s pile of leaks about Donald Trump and Russia, explained Harry Reid’s  incendiary Sunday letter to FBI Director James Comey  was mostly noted at the time for its far-fetched allegation that Comey may have violated the Hatch Act by dropping his vaguely phrased letter to Congress about emails that may or may not be new found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. But the more important section of the letter may be the other part, in which he slammed Comey for hypocrisy on the grounds that the FBI was sitting on “explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government.” Reid rather famously  concocted a wild fib about Mitt Romney’s taxes  in order to dramatize a political point back in 2012, so the mere fact that he  said  he knew the FBI was sitting on explosive information didn’t mean they really were. But in the past 36 hours, a number of reports have surfaced across various media ou...