On Sunday afternoon, FBI Director James Comey gave Hillary Clinton a Hail Mary pass, the second over her unauthorized use of an insecure secret personal email server while Secretary of State. The issue has continued to fumble Clinton in her presidential campaign bid.
Back in July, Comey found that, while Secretary Clinton had been “extremely careless” in her handling of sensitive State Department information, it was somehow not tantamount to “gross negligence,” and he therefore did not believe that any reasonable prosecutor would pursue criminal charges against her.
Comey came under attack for his call by many, largely Republicans, including by his former boss, Rudy Giuliani.
To the surprise of many, the Clinton email scandal replayed in late October when Comey alerted Congress that the Bureau had unearthed another trove of Clinton’s emails on the computer of Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former congressman and now-estranged husband of Clinton aide and confidante, Huma Abedin, who is under investigation for allegedly having sexted with a 15 year-old girl, among others.
Comey found himself under attack again, this time by Democrats who cried foul for his having raised the issue so close to the election. He had, they claimed, violated the Heath Act. Some called for an investigation and others, his resignation.
Given the sheer volume of emails the FBI discovered on Weiner’s computer, 65,000 in all, it’s hard to believe all the contents were examined; however, Comey claims they have.
To give the Director the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he should release each and every single one of the recently discovered emails. After all, having conducted an exhaustive search in record time, he found Clinton wasn’t “guilty” of anything, so it stands to reason, if she’s not guilty, there’s nothing to hide.
Secretary Clinton would surely be amenable to the emails’ release as she is the mascot of transparency and has called for release of her emails in the first instance as she has in the second.