Correction, Please
Comey Didn’t Persecute Clinton
Item: Writing for the New York Times for July 5, 2016, under the headline “F.B.I. Director James Comey Recommends No Charges for Hillary Clinton on Email,” Mark Landler and Eric Lichtblau reported that Comey’s decision not to recommend indictment was a foregone conclusion, saying, “For weeks, F.B.I. agents expected the investigation would not yield charges. They shared Mr. Comey’s conclusion that Mrs. Clinton had showed poor judgment but that she had not committed a crime.”
Item: In a July 7, 2016 Los Angeles Times “political commentary” piece entitled “Hillary Clinton pays a price for ‘extreme carelessness’ with emails,” David Horsey makes the case that Clinton has been sufficiently punished for her “carelessness” by both the censure she received from Comey and the negative reporting on her illicit use of the private server which “put top-secret information at risk.” He wrote:
Hillary Clinton is relieved that the Justice Department is not going to indict her for using private email servers that put top-secret information at risk. That is a bit like a bull rider at a rodeo feeling happy the raging animal broke two of his legs, smashed six ribs and crushed his skull but didn’t kill him. Sure, the worst didn’t happen, but neither Hillary nor the bull rider is walking away unscathed.
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