When This Blows Over

The FBI recovered one email, for example, that contained a “C” in
parenthesis in the margin — an obvious sign that the corresponding
paragraph was classified “Confidential.” When an agent personally
interviewed Clinton, on July 2, he showed her the document and asked
whether she understood what the “C” meant.
For anyone who has ever held a security clearance, “C’s” in
the margins are more ubiquitous than “C’s” on water
faucets — and no more baffling. But Clinton played the
ditzy grandmother. She had simply assumed, she said, that
the “C” was marking an item in an alphabetized list.
In the 2,500-year life of the alphabet, this was a first: a list that started
with the third letter and contained but a single item. The explanation was
laughable, but any sensible answer would have constituted an
acknowledgement of malicious intent. Her only out was the “wellintentioned
but careless” script that Obama had written for her. In other
words, she lied to the FBI — a felony offense.
Before she ever told this howler, however, Comey had already prepared a draft of
his statement exonerating her. The FBI let Hillary Clinton skate.
But give Comey his due. If he had followed the letter of the law, the trail
of guilt may have led all the way to Obama himself. As Andrew C.
McCarthy has demonstrated at National Review Online, Obama used a
dummy email account to communicate with Clinton via her private
server. Did this make Obama complicit in Clinton’s malfeasance?
Anyone in Comey’s position would have thought twice before moving
to prosecute her — and not only because the case might have ensnared
President Obama himself.
excerpted from “The Real Collusion Story”