It Wasn’t Comey’s Decision to Exonerate Hillary – It Was Obama’s--Andrew C. McCarthy
"The thing to understand, what has always been the most important thing to understand, is that Jim Comey was out in front, but he was not calling the shots.
...Let’s think about what else was going on in April 2016.
...On
April 10, 2016, President Obama publicly stated that Hillary Clinton had shown “carelessness” in using a private e-mail server to handle classified information, but he insisted that she had not intended to endanger national security (which is not an element of the [criminal statutes relevant to her e-mail scandal]).
The president acknowledged that classified information had been transmitted via Secretary Clinton’s server, but he suggested that, in the greater scheme of things, its importance had been vastly overstated.
This is
precisely the reasoning that Comey relied on in ultimately absolving Clinton, as I recounted in the same column:
,,,Obama’s April statements are the significant ones.
They told us how this was going to go.
The rest is just details.
In his April 10 comments, Obama made the obvious explicit:
He did not want the certain Democratic nominee, the candidate he was backing to succeed him, to be indicted.
...As we also now know – but as Obama knew at the time –
the president himself had communicated with Clinton over
her non-secure, private communications system,
using an alias.
...plan was in place and already being implemented when Director Comey began drafting the “findings” he would announce months later.
But it was not Comey’s plan.
It was Obama’s plan."
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