After Comey’s dismissal, it’s time for a commission

IT MUST have seemed like a good idea at the time. Why not get rid of an irksomely independent FBI director, who was making trouble for Donald Trump’s White House, by exploiting his mishandling of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails? After all, Mrs Clinton believes that James Comey cost her the presidency with a letter informing Congress in October that he was reopening the investigation into her use of a private e-mail server. Surely Democrats would be glad to see the back of him.Mr Trump has the power to sack Mr Comey. But nobody will be fooled by the quasi-prosecutorial memo drawn up by the deputy attorney-general, Rod Rosenstein, at the president’s request. If the trouble were Mr Comey’s handling of Mrs Clinton’s e-mails, he could have been sacked four months ago. Indeed, Mr Trump had praised Mr Comey’s October letter, saying it had taken “a lot of guts”.