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Our Opinion: Where next?

In quick succession, FBI Director James Comey dropped two bombshells in the race for president. 

On Friday, Oct. 28, Comey revealed a second investigation into Hillary Clinton’s illegal use of private email servers while she was secretary of state.

Then, on Sunday, Comey said the second probe had concluded — and no action would be taken against Clinton. Coming just two days before the election, that was a gift to Clinton in her battle against Donald Trump.

It was not the last we will hear of Clinton’s email misdeeds. Rest assured of that.

Clinton broke the law in using private email servers while secretary of state. She knew she was doing so. She understood the law required her to use secure State Department email servers to keep national secrets from falling into the wrong hands.

Once her crime was exposed, Clinton lied about it, repeatedly. She and some of her aides tried to erase some incriminating messages. They withheld others from investigators.

Yet in July, Comey declared he would not recommend Clinton be prosecuted. She did not intend to jeopardize national security, he said.

At the same time, Comey noted FBI agents examining Clinton’s emails had found more than 100 pieces of information that were supposed to have been kept secret.

Though many other people have been prosecuted and punished for lesser offenses involving national security, Clinton was let off the hook.

Then came the Oct. 28 bombshell. Comey revealed a new batch of Clinton emails had been discovered on a computer used by disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Weiner is a serial sexual predator, given to using his computer to send inappropriate pictures to women and, allegedly, an underage girl.

Comey’s second bombshell was dropped Sunday, when he let it be known FBI investigators had finished examining emails on Weiner’s computer. Still, nothing was found to compel prosecution of Clinton, Comey wrote in a letter to some members of Congress.

So, as tens of millions of Americans prepare to go to the polls to select a new president today, Clinton has a clean bill of health from the FBI director.

But one question remains unanswered. Where else will Clinton’s emails — carrying with them national secrets — turn up?

In Moscow? Beijing? Pyongyang? To be distributed far and wide by WikiLeaks?

What will Comey do then?

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