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This is what it’s come to in this country.<\/p>\n

The head of the nation’s leading federal investigative agency offers a compelling argument for why he isn’t recommending a criminal indictment against a candidate for president.<\/p>\n

And yet there remains doubt over whether the FBI did its job with integrity and professionalism.<\/p>\n

FBI Director James Comey offered a detail explanation of his agency’s findings today in determining that it wouldn’t recommend seeking an indictment against Hillary Clinton over her use of a personal e-mail server while she served as secretary of state.<\/p>\n

Here’s his statement in full. It’s worth reading.<\/p>\n

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Sure, he has scolded Clinton for being “careless” in her handling of e-mail messages sent from her server. But in his careful language, Comey assures us that no prosecutor worth a damn would find any reasonable cause to seek criminal charges over what transpired during Clinton’s tenure at the State Department.<\/p>\n

Moreover, I also accept the declaration that the FBI director did his job with integrity.<\/p>\n

As Comey said this morning: “I know there will be intense public debate in the wake of this recommendation, as there was throughout this investigation. What I can assure the American people is that this investigation was done competently, honestly, and independently. No outside influence of any kind was brought to bear.”<\/p>\n

I accept those findings.<\/p>\n\n

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