Baltimore Sun

The Sun carries water for Clinton

- Robert C. Erlandson

As predictabl­e as the sun coming up in the morning, The Sun repeats the talking points generated by the Hillary Clinton presidenti­al campaign and her supporters that the letter written by FBI Director James Comey this past Friday was either a partisan maneuver or an attempt to influence the election (“Comey puts his thumb on the scale of the election,” Oct. 31). The person who was praised by The Sun as being a nonpartisa­n public servant several months ago in recommendi­ng no prosecutio­n of Hillary Clinton for her clear violations of security protocols has now become a partisan hack.

The point that seems to elude The Sun — or perhaps The Sun willfully ignores it for its own partisan purposes — is that the entire email fiasco is the result of the actions and subsequent misconduct of Hillary Clinton. She is the one who set up an email system contrary to proper procedures, destroyed 33,000 emails once her violations were discovered, and repeatedly misled investigat­ors or developed situationa­l amnesia when confronted with her misconduct.

Director Comey was presented with informatio­n about the existence of these emails one day before he sent his letter to Congress advising it of the situation. According to The Sun, Comey should have sat on this until there was a material change in informatio­n — whatever that means. Of course, Candidate Clinton would have preferred the disclosure on November 9.

If Director Comey did the bidding of The Sun and Democratic Party supporters to wait, there would indeed be a thumb on the scale — Hillary Clinton’s.

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