Regarding the Sept. 10 editorial “The Clinton email story is out of control”:

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s careless handling of classified material, as documented in the FBI report, would have cost anyone else their security clearance and most likely their job. This was a firing offense.

As important, if not more so, are the consequences of access to Ms. Clinton’s nonclassified communications. She is permanently and irredeemably compromised. Those who hold those communications know how she thinks and acts, to whom she turns for advice and when and how she takes action. Others now have her number, and they will use it against her and us.

Finally, there is the possibility of blackmail, against both Ms. Clinton and anyone she contacted through her email correspondence. The prospect of extortion will loom over every action she may take to meet threats to our national and economic security.

Please do not continue to give her a break on this.

Chuck Rushing, Vienna

The public may truly be weary of all of the brouhaha over the Clinton email scandal, but it has not abandoned its tedious search for the truth. That former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has misrepresented both her role and the risks that she has foisted on this nation is the real and proven issue. Her excuses about her understanding of classified markings and the risk that she revealed important classified matter to our foes are the problems. She is either freely lying to us, or she is incompetent — either of which should disqualify her from the presidency.

So join all of us in the Clinton scandal weariness, but please keep your eye on the real issues of this misbehavior.

Raymond Dudderar, California, Md.