In terms of Denny Hastert, sexual predator, I don’t mind seeing his life ruined. In terms of Denny Hastert, guilty of “structuring” to avoid reporting on large withdrawals of his own money, I object to this criminal prosecution. The laws on structuring should be repealed.
If a private investigator showed up claiming to have video of what I had done every moment since I met my wife for the first time, my responses would be (1) that’s pretty creepy of you, and probably boring, and (2) cool can I have a copy of the occasional good parts? However, I’d guess that most politicians have skeletons in their closet, creepy urges, flings on the road, and other issues. Most are probably not as bad as Hillary’s husband (the rapist), or Denny Hastert (the gay pedophile), but they probably want their secrets kept secret.
I worry how easy it would be for a sleazy and corrupt occupant of the White House to use metadata to find secrets that could be used for blackmail. General Petraeus is a problem? Okay, check his phone calls. Long late night calls to a woman? Bingo! Chief Justice Roberts might vote in accordance with the Constitution? Not a problem; check him out too.
The oligarchy running the world now does not allow men and women to reach positions of power unless they have ‘things’ to fill pup the blackmail file. Look at the void-of-character Roberts soiling the bench in the subPreme Court!
J. Edgar Hoover and many other men did this long before computers existed, much less metadata. Ever wonder how Hoover was able to keep his job for so long, through so many administrations?