<p><a type="internal">Opinion</a></p> 
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<p><a type="internal">Modal Trigger</a></p> James Comey 
<p>As soon as FBI Director James Comey announced the revival of the investigation into Hillary Clinton&#8217;s private e-mail server, Democrats went on the attack &#8212; against Comey.</p> 
<p>The lowest is the party&#8217;s top smear-meister: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.</p> 
<p>The same Harry Reid who flat-out lied in 2012 in claiming a &#8220;confidential source&#8221; told him Mitt Romney had paid no income taxes for a decade. (In fact, Romney paid millions.)</p> 
<p>The same Harry Reid who still calls that lie &#8220;one of the best things I&#8217;ve ever done&#8221; &#8212; simply because &#8220;Romney didn&#8217;t win.&#8221;</p> 
<p>Now he&#8217;s wildly accusing Comey of suppressing evidence about Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;close ties and coordination&#8221; with Vladimir Putin&#8217;s government.</p> 
<p>And he&#8217;s not alone: Democrats and their media allies have unleashed an unbridled attack on Comey, accusing him of violating federal law with his Friday letter to Congress. He&#8217;s endangering democracy, they say, and deliberately sabotaging Clinton.</p> 
<p>What a load of hypocritical hooey.</p> 
<p>In June, Democrats praised Comey to the skies after he gave Hillary a free pass on her private server. Never mind that, as former Attorney General Michael Mukasey argued, her actions appear to have violated several statutes, and others have been prosecuted for far less.</p> 
<p>Now that Comey wants to check the e-mails from Anthony Weiner&#8217;s devices, he&#8217;s become an agent of the &#8220;vast right-wing conspiracy&#8221; that Clinton says has been hounding her for 25 years.</p> 
<p>Sorry: After clearing Clinton four months ago, Comey had no choice but to announce the discovery of potential fresh evidence in the case &#8212; evidence that should&#8217;ve been handed over long ago. If he&#8217;d tried to keep a lid on it, the political impact would be far bigger when the news inevitably leaked.</p> 
<p>We&#8217;re glad to see the White House playing it cool, announcing that President Obama doesn&#8217;t believe Comey is trying to influence the election outcome.</p> 
<p>The fault here is not with the FBI but with the Democrats&#8217; own candidate, Hillary Clinton, who plainly believes the law doesn&#8217;t matter if it conflicts with her desire for secrecy.</p> 
<p>Just as Harry Reid believes the truth doesn&#8217;t matter &#8212; as long as the Democrats win.</p>
Don’t buy Harry Reid’s smear of FBI boss James Comey