David Brooks:

… all of our priors.

I think the main — again, it's one of these deals where you have got a headline and then some undercutting subterfuge. And the headline to me is that the institution basically worked, that the actual investigations were basically done without any political bias.

And that's worth reminding people, that there is such a thing as a professional civil service these days, when everyone thinks it's all political and it's al a swamp. It's not a swamp. These are hardworking people, and they seem to have been basically doing their job.

There have been a couple of demerits on that. One, the few e-mails that were — where people within the FBI were clearly — were motivated by a Trump bias. And that will work to — we have seen Rudy Giuliani in the past couple of days ramp up his rhetoric about the investigation.

And it seems to me it makes it, along with the Mark Sanford defeat, much more likely that, if Trump does ever take action against Mueller, that the GOP will get in line, and they will have a little more evidence to say, yes, it's a corrupt investigation.

As for Comey, he had a tough call, to disclose something or not to disclose. And I could argue it either way. I take the I.G. verdict that he made the wrong call. And so he will get some criticism for that, and maybe justifiable.

It is, frankly, a little interesting to me to see a lot of Democrats suddenly being in favor for secrecy in government. And they want him — oh, we got to keep these things secret before an election.

And I, as a personal matter, think secrecy is often a good thing in government, and open government is not always a good thing. And I'm glad to see so much support from the left these days.

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