Comey's Clinton decision ignites partisan fireworks

Thanks to FBI director James Comey’s press conference July 5, there were plenty of post-Independence Day fireworks.

His nearly 15 minutes of live, nationally broadcast findings of a many-month investigation into how the likely Democratic candidate for president, Hillary Clinton, handled sensitive emails while she served as Secretary of State, danced along the ledge of guilt.

Then came the conclusion where Comey announced that his agency thought Clinton’s conduct — while described in such terms as, “extremely careless” — determinedthat “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case based on the...