Hillary and the FBI: Yes, the fix was in

So let’s pretend that Bill Clinton’s “coincidental” meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on the Arizona tarmac just a few days before the investigation was closed never happened — we’re suspending disbelief here, right? If Hillary Clinton knew that the FBI regarded her co-conspirator, Cheryl Mills, as a cooperative witness rather than a suspect who might very well be charged, why would Mrs. Clinton and her lawyers think she (Clinton) was in any potential jeopardy?

And putting even that aside, once Mrs. Clinton saw that the FBI and the Justice Department had no problem with Mills’​s accompanying Clinton into the conference room for the latter’s interview, didn’t Mrs. Clinton have to know there was no conceivable way she was going to be charged, no matter how insultingly ludicrous were her answers to the agents’ questions?

There are certain unmistakable signals investigators send when they are trying to make a case. Plainly, there are also certain signals they send when they are trying not to make a case. Was there ever a time when the Justice Department and the FBI conveyed to lawyers for Mrs. Clinton and her inner circle that there was a serious possibility that they could be charged?

I’m betting the answer is no, and that that explains why Clinton & Co. were so willing to speak with the FBI — and why their lawyers (astonishingly including Ms. Mills) were so willing to let it happen. They understood there was no real jeopardy: The Justice Department would abide the most outlandish legal theories if that’s what it took to avoid filing charges.