Toledo Blade: FBI Director James Comey’s exoneration of Democratic presidential nominee

Toledo Blade: FBI Director James Comey’s exoneration of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for failing to keep secure classified information was not a proud moment for anyone.

We were told that Mrs. Clinton was “extremely careless,” when she used a private email server for official State Department business, which is supposed to somehow be legally different than “grossly negligent” – the legal standard. There is no difference.

No one expected Mrs. Clinton to go to the slammer over this. But Mr. Comey’s own words give the lie to his official conclusion: No biggie.

To all appearances, and by all logic, that behavior was a violation of two statutes, one punishable as a misdemeanor and one punishable as a felony. Mr. Comey even volunteered that an ordinary person who did what Mrs. Clinton did would be ... “subject to security and administrative sanctions.”

So justice was politicized here. And just about everyone involved, from the president, to the attorney general, to the Clintons, to the FBI director is sullied and diminished.