Comey’s message: There’s two sets of rules

Classified emails. Unclassified emails. What difference does it make?

That’s the message FBI Director James B. Comey sent yesterday when he said he won’t recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton, despite mishandling highly classified information in at least 110 emails on her unauthorized server, exposing our nation’s top secrets as secretary of state.

Perhaps Comey could explain to the American people the difference between “extremely careless” and “grossly negligent” before letting a career politician skate. Or perhaps he could explain why Clinton’s IT guy, Brian Pagliano, pleaded the Fifth 125 times.

No matter. Comey’s statement confirms two troubling things: The justice system is rigged, and Clinton, who may become our next president, can’t be trusted.

In March 2015, she told us, “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There was no classified material. I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.”

So, here we are a year later, and we know Clinton lied and got caught, and there’s no accountability.

It must be nice to have friends in high places, including the president, who jetted Clinton around on Air Force One yesterday, campaigning beside her. Of course that had no impact on the Justice Department’s actions. Nor does having a very influential husband and former president on Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s airplane last week, days before the former secretary of state was deposed by the FBI, for a talk about “his grandkids.”

It’s no wonder most Americans don’t trust their elected officials. Clearly there’s one set of rules for them, and another for the rest of us.

Comey made it clear there are two sets of rules when he said, “To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences.”

Would the difference be whether the accused under criminal investigation had a D or an R behind their name?

I guess we’ll never really know. For now, we are witnessing the Department of In Justice at the highest echelons of our government.