The Patriot Post® · Thursday Opinion

Today’s Editors’ Choice

• Tony Perkins: A Legacy of Leaky Justice
• Larry Elder: Trump vs. Waters — Who Should Be Impeached?
• Victor Davis Hanson: Lessons From the Battle of Midway

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Opinion in Brief

Andrew McCarthy: “On April 10, 2016, President Obama publicly stated that Hillary Clinton had shown ‘carelessness’ in using a private e-mail server to handle classified information, but he insisted that she had not intended to endanger national security (which is not an element of the relevant criminal statute). The president acknowledged that classified information had been transmitted via Secretary Clinton’s server, but he suggested that, in the greater scheme of things, its importance had been vastly overstated. On July 5, 2016, FBI director James Comey publicly stated that Clinton had been ‘extremely careless’ in using a private email server to handle classified information, but he insisted that she had not intended to endanger national security (which is not an element of the relevant criminal statute). The director acknowledged that classified information had been transmitted via Secretary Clinton’s server, but he suggested that, in the greater scheme of things, it was just a small percentage of the emails involved. Case dismissed. Could there be more striking parallels? A cynic might say that Obama had clearly signaled to the FBI and the Justice Department that he did not want Mrs. Clinton to be charged with a crime, and that, with this not-so-subtle pressure in the air, the president’s subordinates dropped the case — exactly what Obama wanted, relying precisely on Obama’s stated rationale. Yet the media yawned. Of course, they’re not yawning now.”