The New America: No Punishment For Lying To Congress If You're In The Ruling Elite
Jonathan Turley writes that Senator John McCain was irate that the CIA lied to him and to Congress about a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, being held in Iran:

However, unlike demands for the jailing of whistleblowers like Edward Snowden for revealing government abuses, McCain notably did not even suggest prosecuting CIA officials who allegedly consistently and repeatedly lied to Congress. No, he suggests that the latest example of false statements to Congress might require a reexamination of congressional oversight. Now that must be chilling for people who could be charged with federal crimes ranging from perjury to obstruction to false statements to federal officers.

I previously wrote a column how our country seems to have developed separate rules for the ruling elite and the rest of us. There is no better example than the lack of response of the Senate to the admitted perjury of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper before Congress. While the Justice Department has prosecuted people for the smallest departure from the truth, including testimony before Congress, no one in the Senate is calling for an investigation, let alone a prosecution, of Clapper. For his part, Attorney General Eric Holder is continuing his political approach to enforcing the law and declining to even acknowledge the admitted perjury of Clapper. Now, in a truly bizarre moment, Clapper has written a letter of apology like an errant schoolboy to excuse his commission of a felony crime . . . and it appears to have been accepted. What is curious is that we do not have letters from senators like Dianne Feinstein apologizing to doing nothing when they were all aware that Clapper was lying in his public testimony. Welcome to America's Animal Farm.

From David Keene in the Wash Times, Clapper's lie:

It's worth taking a minute to go back to that hearing, in which Mr. Wyden asked Mr. Clapper very specifically, "Does the National Security Agency collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" Mr. Clapper furrowed his brow, scratched his head and said, "No sir, it does not."

Keene called for Clapper's resignation. And yes, that's what it's come to -- newspaper editorials calling for justice, which will be roundly ignored.