Legitimize What Can’t Be Proven: Comey’s ‘October Surprise’ - by Gene Lyons
November 2, 2016 6:00 am
Sorry, but I’ve seen this movie before and I know how it ends. There will never be a criminal prosecution of Hillary Clinton for two basic reasons: First, she’s a cautious, intelligent politician who doesn’t take reckless chances. How many failed “investigations” before Republicans get that?
Second, bogus charges against prominent individuals with first-rate attorneys endanger the prosecution more than the defense. You think the formerly eminent Kenneth Starr fled to Waco, Texas because he was insufficiently partisan? His ace prosecutors lost every “Whitewater” trial except the one where they convicted his own star witness, poor, sick Jim McDougal.
But let’s go back to the starting place, October 1992, because what happened then has a direct bearing on today’s headlines.
Based upon some inept, not particularly honest articles in the New York Times, an unqualified partisan in the Treasury Department—she later admitted selling “Presidential Bitch” coffee mugs from her government office—cobbled together criminal referrals naming just about every prominent Democrat in Arkansas as a suspect in Jim McDougal’s financial shenanigans.
They included Bill and Hillary Clinton, who the evidence would show—and Kenneth Starr’s prosecutors eventually argued in open court—had been swindled and lied to in McDougal’s vain attempt to keep his foundering savings and loan, Madison Guaranty, from going under.
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http://www.nationalmemo.com/comeys-october-surprise/
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