48 Hour FBI Flu

Giving Comey the benefit of the doubt that he might be acting in good faith, we will have this email wrapped up in two days.  The task is simpler than before.

First isolate all emails from Clinton to Huma Abedin.  Next cross reference against any emails from Clinton to Abedin on Hillary's server.  Eliminate all duplicates.  Review the remainder, if any.

If Comey drags this on beyond the election, he may be willfully violating the Hatch Act.

Clinton Innocence Reinforced

Comey has shown his true color, pachyderm grey.  Inserting himself into the election, against protocol, is as clear cut, as his letter is ambiguous.

Now that we know his bias, we can reexamine his decision to not prosecute.   The case was so clear cut he had no option.  The only thing he could do as a partisan, was to issue a harsh statement, once again violating protocol.  If a self serving, GOP leaning hack, cleared her, someone more objective might have given her a medal.

Hillary's Bimbo Crisis

Clinton's campaign is being busted up by a story with long legs but no substance.  Drawn in by unrelenting Republican wolf calls, the press wags its tongue and breathlessly reports each  e-mail non-event.  Unlike Republican paradigms of virtue, Hillary neither mislead this nation into a costly war, nor shared classified information with a lover/biographer.

Hillary's sin is an understandably excessive concern for her privacy, after decades of false scandals with names like Whitewater and  the death of Vince Foster.   Hopefully the voting public will not dance to the constant drumbeat of challenges to Clinton's integrity.  Let them instead march to the poles to vote for the most qualified candidate to run for the presidency  in my lifetime.

Republican Lack of Moral Perspective Part 1

The Trump does not have a standard stump.  But one staple in his monologue unfavorably compares Hillary Clinton's e-mail's to the information leaked by former General and CIA Director Petraeus.  Hillary's offense is so much worse that she is not qualified to run for office.

So as not to be accused of progressive partisanship, my source for Petraeus's actions is the silo of conservative hysteria, Fox News.  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/23/former-cia-director-petraeus-to-be-sentenced-for-leaking-classified-information/  Petraeus admits that he improperly retained 8 black books containing classified information including the names of covert operatives in Afghanistan, and allied war strategy.  The documents were kept in an unlocked drawer.

He shared these notebooks with his biographer with whom he was having an extra marital affair.  He knowingly and intentionally placed the lives of covert operatives in the soft hands of a lover with no security clearance.  Had she been an agent of a foreign power as part of a honeypot operation, he might have been guilty of treason.

Hillary's alleged offense is technical, not intentional.  Information marked classified is to be sent by hard, rather than electronic copy.  Out of tens of thousands of e-mails a handful might have contained information which, although not marked classified, one or more agencies subsequently considered classified.  It is also possible that Hillary authored a few e-mails that some now consider to contain classified material.  She did not share information with anyone not cleared to receive it.

Of course, classified can be a relative term.  A department may consider embarrassing material classified, even if it is in the public domain.

 
Truth is lost with a moral compass that only points right.