Here’s a startling admission from a mainstream pundit, William McGurn at The Wall Street Journal:
In our criminal justice system, the bureau’s job is to investigate, while the decision to indict belongs to the Justice Department. In other words, whether to indict Mrs. Clitnon was Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s responsibility, and she would have to take the heat whichever way she decided.
Until FBI director Jim Comey intervened with a press conference in which he announced he was recommending against indictment. By going public in a way even he admitted was “unusual,” Mr. Comey effectively pre-empted the Justice Department and any hope for accountability. That Mr. Comey’s decision let Ms. Lynch off the hook after her private meeting with Bill Clinton only makes it more disgraceful.
Welcome to modern Washington, just two months away from a presidential election. It’s possible, of course, that the people who believe the system is rigged and that their government has taken sides against them are wrong.
But the most disquieting possibility is that it isn’t crazy to think they might be right.
The Wall Street Journal, “Even Worse Than Clinton’s Emails, 9/6/16
The admission in the last paragraph is hedged with weasel words, but this is, after all, the MSM. You can’t just expect a MSMer to come out and say straight out what the alternative media has been shouting from the rooftops for years.
