Rather than smearing Comey, Clinton should be thanking him for not suggesting she be indicted.
By David Harsanyi
http://reason.com/archives/2017/05/05/james-comey-didnt-sink-hillary-hillary-sPerhaps if we were to all live in a vacuum where the electorate ignored everything the Democratic Party's flawed
nominee said and did (and tried to hide), she would be in the White House—although even that's debatable.
Clinton's counterfactual tale about the infamous Comey letter has been a security blanket for many Democrats. But, as
luck would have it, the FBI director was testifying in front of a Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, and he reminded
us of some factors that Clinton ignored. That's because even if we concede that Comey's letter to Congress helped sink
Clinton, Clinton deserved that letter and Comey had no choice but to send it.
In essence, what many Democrats have been arguing for the past six months is that Comey should have actively buried
evidence that was pertinent to an ongoing congressional investigation—one that incidentally turned up plenty of potential
wrongdoing—because it might hurt their preferred candidate's chances . . .
. . . It was Hillary who ran a poor campaign and lost to one of the most unpopular presidential candidates in history. As
former President Barack Obama's adviser David Axelrod pointed out Wednesday, she never took responsibility for any
of it.
He said: "But Jim Comey didn't tell her not to campaign in Wisconsin after the convention. Jim Comey didn't say, 'Don't
put any resources in Michigan until the final week of the campaign.' One of the things that hindered her in the campaign
was a sense that she never fully was willing to take responsibility for her mistakes, particularly that server."
Moreover, as Comey basically admitted again today, Clinton had clearly broken the law. The only struggle was proving
intent (though gross negligence was the standard). So rather than smearing Comey, Clinton should be thanking him for
not suggesting she be indicted.
