What In The World Is The Deal With FBI Director James Comey?

By: Ben Shapiro

So, FBI director James Comey has now revealed that the 650,000 treasure trove of emails the FBI discovered on Anthony Weiner’s laptop don’t contain any information that would make him rethink his decision not to recommend indictment for Hillary Clinton. According to The Washington Post, “The agents’ work, at first, seemed endless. They had to use special software to sift through 650,000 emails.” But they accomplished this formidable task, and then Comey announced that “all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was Secretary of State [had] not changed our conclusions.”

Most of the emails, but not all, reportedly duplicated other emails turned over by Clinton earlier or discovered by the FBI. The statement, notably, did not say that the Clinton Foundation had been let off the hook – it hasn’t been. And new Wikileaks over the email demonstrate further corruption, from Hillary sending classified emails to her maid to print, to Chelsea allegedly using Foundation dollars to sponsor her wedding.

So Hillary’s still corrupt. And yes, she’s still a criminal. And according to the Democrats, Hillary’s back to being innocent and Comey’s back to being a saintlike wonder-man.

But the real question is: what in the world was Comey thinking?

In July, Comey refused to recommend Clinton for indictment. He did so by changing the law, requiring a level of intent that simply didn’t exist in the regulations. Those regulations demand merely proving “gross negligence.” It’s hard to get more grossly negligent with classified material than setting up a private server in a bathroom, then funneling classified information through it – and making it vulnerable to hack in the process. Or sending that material to your hired janitorial help.

So it’s no surprise that Comey has let her off the hook again; once you change the standard of the law, you’d need to find an email from Hillary to Vladimir Putin sending him the names of American spies in order to indict her.

But here’s what actually happened here: Comey rushed to let her off, then rushed to get himself off, then rushed to let her off when the polls went south. No wonder nobody trusts the FBI now – it’s a political tool.

No matter what happens tomorrow, Hillary will never be trusted by the American people. And nobody will trust James Comey or Loretta Lynch to do justice. That means that the American people won’t give Hillary any sort of bully pulpit, or any credibility when she makes her case to the American people.

That’s perhaps the only good news to come from this horror show of an election.