Of course Republicans don’t trust Hillary Clinton when she claims she has turned over all government-related documents created on her secret email server. Some Democrats appear to have doubts as well. But surely Clinton’s old colleagues in the Obama administration — the people who worked with her for four years and know her well — surely they trust the word of the former secretary of state?

Not at all. Listen to the administration’s official voices, particularly at the White House and the State Department, and you’ll hear bureaucrats carefully keeping their distance from Clinton. Nobody wants to fully vouch for her truthfulness.