Editorial hypocrisy

During its coverage of law enforcement matters, the Journal Sentinel has made one thing abundantly clear: It is inappropriate for any government official to break the law to enforce the law.

One rather hypocritical exception to this rule is found in the Journal Sentinel editorial, “Trump vindicated? Hardly, this fight has just begun” (Crossroads, June 11). Here, the Journal Sentinel opinion writers seemingly applaud former FBI Director James Comey for violating, at a minimum, the U.S. Privacy Act by leaking information gleaned as a result of his employment.

Moreover, let us all be glad state and federal prosecutors possess a higher degree of ethical standards than the Journal Sentinel Editorial Board, which takes Trump to task for possibly “coming close” to breaking the law. Liberal legal scholars Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley have examined Trump’s conduct and concluded the president did not violate any of the elements of the federal obstructing justice statute. People charged with a crime either violate the law, in accordance with codified statutes, or they do not. It is unethical and shameful to accuse any individual of lawbreaking without citing a specific statute and its applicable subsections. The editorial did not do so because federal statutes fail to bolster its rabid anti-Trump narrative.

Steve Spingola Retired Lieutenant Milwaukee Police Department Wales