RICHARD EPSTEIN ON COMEY AND THE CLASSIFIED(?) EMAILS: AN IMPERFECT GUIDE TO THE PERPLEXED:

But the more difficult issue is that the FBI cannot release those emails that are classified without creating some serious national security complications.

The same is true, moreover, for Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin, assuming that they still have these emails in their possession. They could surely release them if they contained no classified information. But they surely cannot release these emails if they do contain classified information.

But by the same token, they cannot say that they refuse to release them because they contain classified information: that admission would be evidence enough that they illegally shared information, which would be grounds for the prosecution of both women.

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