The unavoidable logic of criminal behavior is that when crimes aren’t prosecuted, criminals are encouraged. Whether it’s shoplifting in San Francisco or New York or far more serious crimes such as violations of the law on the handling of classified information, the logic remains the same.

Comey excused Clinton’s flagrant violations of the law because she was politically aligned with him.
On July 5, 2016, then-FBI Director James Comey gave a huge gift to then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The gift was in the form of his decision to not recommend prosecution of Clinton for her hundreds (thousands?) of violations of law when she was secretary of state by discussing classified information on unsecured email systems such as the now-infamous “Clintonmail.”
According to a news report, the Southeastern Legal Foundation has revealed that while Secretary of State Tony Blinken was Joe Biden’s national security advisor, he and Biden exchanged emails on classified matters on unsecured email systems using pseudonymous accounts on gmail.
Included among the topics discussed were a North Korean missile launch. Others, likely classified subjects, were redacted from emails upon disclosure to the Southeastern Legal Foundation.
As this column has written repeatedly, the use of unsecured emails to discuss classified information is a federal felony carrying a sentence of up to 10 years per offense.
As we should recall — and as I wrote eight years ago — Comey held a press conference to announce that while Clinton had used several private email systems — unsecured by the government — the FBI had not read the content of all of her tens of thousands of emails.
Comey’s statement went on to say:
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
For example, seven...