I'm not saying the Comey letter was a lie; I'm saying media organizations made mistakes in how they covered it. If you prefer:

"A fact that's missing critical context can travel half way around the world while the full context is putting on its shoes."

The same fundamental concept is at play here.

It was against FBI policy to declare that so close to an election

Supposedly Comey violated it because some FBI agents were already illegally leaking it to Guliani and he was sure Clinton would win anyway

And then he was fired. :D