Today's Editors' Choice
- Robert Steven Ingebo: Why There Will Not Be Any Investigations of Clinton by Congress or the FBI
- Burt Prelutsky: The Statues Are Coming!
- Todd Starnes: Discarded Banana Peel Causes Racial Hysteria at Ole Miss
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Opinion in Brief
Andrew C. McCarthy: "The commentariat is in full-throttle outrage over the revelation that former FBI Director Comey began drafting his statement exonerating Hillary Clinton in April 2016 — more than two months before he delivered the statement at his now famous July 5 press conference. ... It shows, they cry, that the fix was in! News Flash: This is not news. ... Obama's April statements are the significant ones. They told us how this was going to go. The rest is just details. In his April 10 comments, Obama made the obvious explicit: He did not want the certain Democratic nominee, the candidate he was backing to succeed him, to be indicted. ... As we also now know — but as Obama knew at the time — the president himself had communicated with Clinton over her non-secure, private communications system, using an alias. ... It would not have been possible to prosecute Mrs. Clinton for mishandling classified information without its being clear that President Obama had engaged in the same conduct. The administration was never, ever going to allow that to happen. ... The decision not to indict Hillary Clinton was not made by then-FBI Director Comey. It was made by President Obama and his Justice Department — Comey's superiors."
