The investigation of Hillary’s email scandal was forced upon the FBI, not by the work of the FBI, rather by the public’s knowledge of the illegal emails which forced James Comey leading the FBI to look into it. Having found extensive malfeasances, Comey had to divulge the malfeasances without recommending the indictment of Hillary, thus he did everything he could do to help Hillary within the constraints of the reality of her many malfeasances.