Why is it that, once you reach a certain level in the US government, you can ignore rules, commit felonies, and face no consequences whatsoever?

Jail.

Failing that, rope and a tree.

Shouldn't she be in prison now?

Shouldn't she be in prison now?

Posted by: Patrick at March 28, 2015 5:41 AM

Probably, if there was any justice, since about 1996.

I can't figure out why this isn't a bigger story. No squalling about the so-called "liberal media" here -- it was reported extensively from here to Timbuktu, but for some reason few people seemed to care.

I do agree that when one achieves some level of power and/or money, the rules are completely suspended.

Justice Dept not happy w/FBI/DEA - "We cannot be completely confident that the FBI and DEA provided us with all information relevant to this review."

I know just how they feel.

"I can't figure out why this isn't a bigger story. "

It's on the front page on the websites of CNN, CBS News, ABC News, and under "Politics" on the NBC News site.

I couldn't find it on Al-Jazeera but BBC News has an opinion piece about it on their front page.

Reminds me of the time Bush deleted millions of White House emails. Apparently our politicians do as they please and we can go suck eggs.

I have a question about emails, especially the part about "1 million White House emails:

At ONE SECOND each, how long would it take to read those?

How many were official business, and who controlled them?

Hillary controlled hers. Right?

At ONE SECOND each, how long would it take to read [1,000,000 emails]?

11 days

13 minutes

46.6666666667 seconds

"He did it too" is the sickest, lamest excuse ever. If you accept that, nothing will ever be done about anything. Oh, lujlp, nice try. At one second each, thaere can't be any fractions of a second in the answer. Distraction, fail.

1,000,000 / 60 = 16666.6666667 minuets.

16666.6666667 / 60 = 277.777777778 hours.

277.777777778 / 24 = 11.5740740741 days

.5740740741 * 24 = 13.7777777784 hours

.7777777784 * 60 = 46.6666667 minuets

.6666667 * 60 = 40 seconds

So I, as a dyslexic, skipped one step in a math problem, quelle surprise.

I fail to see how answering a math problem, even if I got it wrong is a distraction.

Perhaps you should read what people write and take it at face value and not look for super secret hidden meanings obvious only to you.

Gog didnt say "Bush did it too" as a defense to Hillary. He said "Bush did it too" to point out parties on either side dont give a fuck about the rules the rest of society abides by.

"I can't figure out why this isn't a bigger story. "

I think part of it is that the specific issue is relatively opaque to the average person. "She set up her own email server. So what?" People who don't work in or around the federal government probably have never heard of the Federal Records Act or the Freedom of Information Act, and wouldn't understand their purpose if you tried to explain it to them. (The people that I'm noticing being most pissed about this are government and contractor employees -- because they know that they can and will be prosecuted for breaking these laws.)

But yeah, the other part of the problem is that we have no trust in our political class anyway. This is just the kind of crap we expect from them.