Team Clinton Tries to Shoot the FBI Messenger

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Team Clinton Tries to Shoot the FBI Messenger

 

The Editors November 1, 2016 9:30 PM

 

Democrats crying foul over FBI director James Comey’s recent letter to Congress might consider this logic: If you don’t want the FBI involving itself in a presidential election, don’t nominate a candidate who’s under investigation by the FBI.

 

Last Friday, Comey informed Congress that the FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, based on potentially incriminating evidence found during the FBI’s entirely separate investigation into allegations that disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner — estranged husband of Huma Abedin, Clinton’s closest confidante — had engaged in a relationship with an underage girl. The letter — which went not just to Republican committee leaders, as the Clinton camp mendaciously suggested, but to top Democrats, too — flouted law-enforcement protocols. The Justice Department customarily eschews commenting publicly on the status of a criminal investigation in which no charges have been filed, and it frowns on “overt action” that could potentially affect an imminent election. But some perspective is in order. Every sin of which Comey is now accused he committed in July, in his extraordinary press conference (and subsequent congressional testimony) announcing his recommendation against the prosecution of Mrs. Clinton and pronouncing her case “closed,” neither of which was in line with FBI protocol.