regarding your editorials <u+201c> comey and clinton agonistes <u+201d> (oct. 31) and <u+201c> a fine fbi-clinton mess <u+201d> (oct. 29): remember watergate. it wasn<u+2019>t the white house tapes that resulted in richard nixon<u+2019>s impeachment. it was obstruction of justice, a crime that the tapes documented. the case of hillary clinton could be similar, but even worse. the use of unclassified, unprotected email for classified material is a crime. (nixon<u+2019>s tapes weren<u+2019>t a crime.) however, the clinton emails may document other crimes including obstruction of justice and influence peddling. robert f. williams san jose, calif. you note that <u+201c>mr. comey can<u+2019>t make more information public if it would compromise the fbi<u+2019>s investigative trail.<u+201d> that may limit what fbi director james comey can do to accommodate hillary clinton<u+2019>s claimed desire to have all the recently revealed information made public. but attorney general loretta lynch or president obama can override this decision if they want to. they can, and clearly should, decide that the national interest in a clean election overrides any concern of possibly compromising a pending investigation. paul koning new boston, n.h. mr. comey<u+2019>s unprecedented decision to make the resumption of the investigation public can only be justified if the preponderance of the evidence that he reviewed lay heavily on the side of a likely indictment of mrs. clinton. if this isn<u+2019>t the case, director comey should be impeached for his reckless interference in a presidential election. an impeachment wouldn<u+2019>t be too high a hurdle after the election as mr. comey has managed the amazing feat in washington of having both sides hate him. ra<u+2019>anan ben-zur atlanta liberals and conservatives can unite on one thing, and that is that fbi director james comey and attorney general loretta lynch should both resign immediately. the lack of thoroughness, independence and courage of these two politicos has split the u.s. in two and created a constitutional crisis. steve gidumal new york i smell a rat. mr. comey will be able to stand up and say, <u+201c>we looked twice and could only find a couple of well-meaning, but misguided individuals who wanted to protect their boss.<u+201d> consequently, the veil of guilt hanging over mrs. clinton will be lifted and she<u+2019>ll be elected president. president obama will then be able to say, <u+201c>every action i<u+2019>ve taken over the past eight years has been done with the same integrity and honesty.<u+201d> everyone on the left wins and anyone who complains about this latest outcome is deemed unreasonably prejudiced. case closed<u+2014>for good. jerry slaske wauwatosa, wis. if mr. comey took a pass on his responsibility to inform congress of the need to investigate the emails discovered on the huma abedin-anthony weiner electronic devices, wouldn<u+2019>t he be guilty of influencing the election in favor of secretary clinton? francis x. bergmeister stafford, va. mr. comey<u+2019>s letter to congress about reopening the fbi<u+2019>s email investigation gives mrs. clinton a fourth amendment due process defense. mr. comey looks bad, sure, but she now has an out, even if the evidence is overwhelmingly against her. that<u+2019>s why she called a rare press conference calling for release of the emails<u+2014>to set up her defense should it get that far. justin palm madison heights, mich. it<u+2019>s time for bill clinton to pay another call on loretta lynch. gerald katz edwards, colo.
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