Obama Was Complicit

Andrew C. McCarthy, former federal prosecutor, writes in National Review that President Obama must have mandated the Comey exoneration of Hillary Clinton on charges of mishandling classified material. Hat tip to Instapundit for the link.

If Clinton had been charged, Obama’s culpable involvement would have been patent. In any prosecution of Clinton, the Clinton–Obama emails would have been in the spotlight. For the prosecution, they would be more proof of willful (or, if you prefer, grossly negligent) mishandling of intelligence. More significantly, for Clinton’s defense, they would show that Obama was complicit in Clinton’s conduct yet faced no criminal charges.

That is why such an indictment of Hillary Clinton was never going to happen. The latest jaw-dropping disclosures of text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and his paramour, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, illustrate this point.

As usual in Washington, the cover-up went all the way to the top, to the Oval Office. The second backside Comey was covering, when he famously announced Clinton did nothing criminal, was Obama’s.