That always seems to be the excuse for them failing to live up to their sworn oath.
Maybe they have embarrassing information on them and maybe they don’t. But everyone knows the score and the risks going in.
If they’re in a position to be blackmailed they should be man or woman enough to step down and allow someone who cares about their country more than keeping skeletons in their closet.
Every politician is in a position to be blackmailed. Surely you have seen what MSM can do with a piece of information that has zero significance. NSA has everything anyone ever said on any electronic device, every video that was ever put on a computer or smartphone, all the inferrable and deducible information that the locations and sequences of cell phone use can provide, etc. Politicians are the least likely people psychologically to be able to simply say,”Do it and be damned.” two or three probably have done that but most will not, psychologically can not.