“I‘m puzzled by his strategy.” That’s a comment I heard some years ago from Democratic consultant Carter Eskew when I asked him what he thought of a ploy by an opposing candidate. I have been puzzled by the Hillary Clinton campaign’s apparent strategy to attack FBI Director James Comey for notifying Congress Oct. 27 that the FBI was investigating emails uncovered in another investigation “to determine whether they contain classified information” — obtained presumably from the homebrew email system employed by Clinton when she was secretary of state.

Comey’s announcement was made before 2 p.m. Friday afternoon, at which point Clinton Democrats immediately went into attack mode, charging first that his letter was sent only to Republican members of Congress. This suggests they were acting in panic mode, since the letter was addressed, as is customary in Executive Branch letters to Congress, to both Republican and Democratic members.