“There should be no bank too big to fail and no individual too big to jail” Hillary Clinton declared in one of the Democratic debates. Well what about the Democratic candidate for president?
Since by now every word out of Mrs. Clinton’s mouth is b’chezkas sheker (assumed to be untrue) it should perhaps be no surprise that the above statement also turned out to be false as description if not prescription.
The director of the FBI James Comey stood before the press last week and thoroughly eviscerated every Clinton talking point about her e-mails and private server. His presentation was itself highly unusual. The FBI is the investigative branch of federal law enforcement not the prosecutorial branch. Comey is no longer the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Announcement of the decision not to prosecute Clinton for “gross negligence” in her handling of classified information should have come from the Justice Department not the FBI.
Clearly Comey wanted the American public to know that Hillary Clinton is as guilty as sin. Her first line of defense for conducting from one e-mail account both government and private business — not that the distinction is terribly relevant with respect to the Clintons — was that she thought it would be more convenient to carry only one mobile device. Nonsense said Comey she regularly used multiple mobile devices. Something other than convenience lay behind the decision to set up a private server and eschew normal State Department channels for communications.
