THE CURRENT → WASHINGTON WRAP Issue 679 · September 27, 2017

Begging Your Pardon

For most people on this list Yom Kippur is just another day — but in the spirit of the holy day, we reviewed the past year ,Washington Wrap: Begging Your Pardon,For most people on this list Yom Kippur is just another day — but in the spirit of the holy day, we reviewed the past year

Begging    Your    Pardon

Yom Kippur has arrived. It’s a time for introspection a time when people apologize to one another for sins between man and his fellow man and atone for sins between man and Hashem.

True for most people on this list Yom Kippur is just another day on the calendar — but in the spirit of the holy day we decided to review the past year and see who needs to ask forgiveness — from whom and for what.

James Comey

From: Hillary Clinton For: Derailing a promising campaign There’s no doubt that Hillary Clinton is stretching the truth when she claims that James Comey “cost her the election.” We will never know how things would have evolved if 11 days before Election Day the then-FBI chief wouldn’t have made public his reopening of the investigation into the Democratic candidate for president.

It’s now clear that Clinton was steadily losing momentum toward the end of the campaign and that she suffered from the professionals’ inaccurate assessment of her chances in states like Pennsylvania Wisconsin Florida and Ohio. Still Comey’s decision was a reckless bureaucratic stunt. To announce the opening (and then closing) of a criminal case a week before national elections raises serious questions regarding Comey’s fitness for his delicate position. Apparently there’s at least one thing the two candidates in the 2016 election agree on.

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