Letters: Email probe a plot to discredit Hillary Clinton.

Regarding the Sentinel’s Thursday headline “State Department: Clinton broke private email rules”: There should have been a second part: “So did her predecessor, Colin Powell.”

According to the article, the 79-page report by the State Department’s inspector general “faulted Clinton for not seeking permission to use a personal email account and server.”

But the article also states, “The report does not focus on Clinton alone. It also found a Republican predecessor, Colin Powell, to have committed similar violations in using personal emails and failing to turn them over to the department.”

If her predecessor used private email to conduct public business, isn’t it logical for Clinton to presume that it was all right to do the same? If it wasn’t allowed, Clinton should have been informed ahead of time, rather than waiting until now.

I hope the American people will realize that like the Benghazi witch hunt, this “email witch hunt” is just another desperate attempt to discredit Clinton. Susan Talana Harris Orlando