Ms. Clinton is hardly blameless. She treated the public’s interest in sound record-keeping cavalierly. A small amount of classified material also moved across her private server. But it was not obviously marked as such, and there is still no evidence that national security was harmed. Ms. Clinton has also admitted that using the personal server was a mistake. The story has vastly exceeded the boundaries of the facts.

The Editorial Board of the Washington Post. There now, was that so very fucking hard to do? Can we now keep these nearly 70 words on a card that is at the ready in the little filofax that is our journalistic brain? I’m guessing no, but I’m an optimist.