In any normal election year, these leaked emails would be giving Hillary Clinton a heaping helping of trouble. There would be questions to answer, actions and interactions to review, and foundation policies to justify. But this is not a normal election year, and the Republican Party has forfeited its ability to capitalize on this unforced error on Clinton's part by fielding a manifestly unfit nominee. 

I am extremely concerned that WikiLeaks is currently operating as an arm of the Kremlin in an American presidential campaign. The Russian government hacked the Democratic National Committee, stole files, and delivered their espionage product to a wanted international criminal. It is Watergate all over again, except that Putin replaces Nixon.

Yet Donald Trump disputes the classified intelligence briefings he has received on the topic. “It defies logic,” retired Gen. Michael V. Hayden, former director of the CIA and the National Security Agency, said of Trump’s pronouncements.