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The Clinton email scandal continues

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said repeatedly, sometimes under oath, that her lawyers and technicians turned over all the emails she stored illegally on a personal server while she was secretary of state.

In response to one court order, she swore she had ordered that all the emails “that were or are potentially federal records be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.”

The FBI has just revealed that it has found about 15,000 previously undisclosed emails and is investigating them.

Clearly, Clinton has been less than candid about the email scandal. The latest revelations should have come as no surprise.

But it raises a troubling question: Earlier this summer, FBI Director James Comey said he had decided not to recommend criminal charges be filed against Clinton. The case is closed.

One wonders whether any sort of federal investigation of, say, John or Jane Q. Public would be declared at an end before 15,000 relevant emails had been reviewed. That it would have been handled this way seems – at best – highly unlikely.

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