Email Found By FBI

   The announcement by FBI director Comey, that his agency is resuming its investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails just eleven days before election, appears to be a serious blow to her campaign.  The question that needs a swift response is whether the newly discovered emails are different than those already reviewed and whether they are otherwise significant.  The expectation is that these questions cannot be answered in the short time remaining before the vote notwithstanding Clinton's demand that the FBI promptly disclose the relevant facts. In all fairness, the FBI owes it to the public, and the candidates, to put into perspective the significance of the renewed inquiry.  The FBI can do this by reviewing a statistically significant sampling of the emails to determine whether they are duplicative and whether they are classified and make that finding public as soon before election day as possible.


   Director Comey, in his memo to FBI staff, explained that it would be misleading the American people if he failed to advise that the investigation would be continued.  It would be equally misleading not to expeditiously determine and advise the public whether the emails are, in any respect, significant.

Trump's Tax Avoidance

Faced with disclosure that he fully exploited what he has termed a "rigged" system, to avoid paying a vast sum of personal taxes and to enrich himself, Trump and his A-list apologists have constructed a mocking defense; his avoidance of taxes, and his use of huge indebtedness, are marks of genius. Now he is prepared to remake that system so that others may not resort to such uncivic maneuvers. So at last we have the basic premise underlying Trump's presidential fitness; it takes a thief to catch a thief.