Posted on 07/05/2016 1:30:55 PM PDT by richardb72
Hillary Clinton likely dodged criminal charges Tuesday for a simple reason: the bar for bringing criminal charges against a politician, particularly a high public official, is so much higher than they are for anyone else. Prosecutions against such high public officials only go forward when there is definitive evidence. Evidence that prosecutors know will lead to a certain conviction.
Why do I say that? Because earlier in my career I was chief economist at the United States Sentencing Commission. I worked frequently with prosecutors. The reputational loss public officials face from criminal charges can be so great that prosecutors feel that they need to be sure of a conviction before going forward. For someone running for president, such as Hillary, that loss of reputation would be tremendous. -- It isnt as if she will be able to pick right back up where she is now in the 2020 presidential race.
So much of debate during this election has been over a different standard applying to the Clintons. FBI Director James Comeys decision Tuesday didnt treat Hillary differently from other high public officials, but he clearly treated her differently from other Americans.
But politicians arent unique. CEOs of major companies or public figures in other areas also face loss of careers simply by being charged. Possibly, prosecutors are simply more sensitive to politicians because they work for them. Politicians also have a lot of political connections. . . .
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It is my sincere hope that you are correct.
The leftist establishment is working together to exonerate the Queen of America.
This episode will help some people understand that. -Tom
Tom DeLay
So it is better that we have criminals in power than to punish corrupt behavior. Sheesh.
???????????????? What country am I living in???????? Haiti???
Is Papa Doc the President here and this guy is his mouthpiece???
A fourth grader could have produced sufficient evidence if there was no consideration of careers, shame, awkwardness, “bars” or any such nuances.
This POS member of the ruling class is the progeny of the greatest generation. Amazing that in a single pass, we go from people who owned and guided this great nation from a Christian worldview, believed in the value of honesty and hard work, altruism, American exceptionalism, who celebrated genuine heroes, modeled ethical behavior, hated and warred against oppressive forms of govt, werent offended easily, invented just about everything useful today to an generation of morally bankrupt, self-serving, thoroughly corrupt, nonredeemable piss-ants. From We the People to Me the Person. One generation! All-time WTF? Im ashamed and embarrassed to be among them.
The corruption in both cases criminally implicates many of the highest level and most powerful politicians in Washington, up to and including the President.
Hillary emailed corresponded with most high level players, probably using the other parties down low, off the books secret private email accounts that they used to communicate in secret without public scrutiny. The entire Obama Administration was corresponding using their secret email accounts to plan and implement their agendas in secret from the public.< /p> Indicting Hillary would expose the secret email networks and open a huge can of worms
“Crooked Hitlary”............
Trump was right again!
It was a pure political prosecution because he locked horns with the IRS.
Then there was the case of Alcee Hastings of Florida who was impeached as a federal judge for bribery and malfeasance at about the same time but never served a day in jail. In fact, he has been representing the Florida house district he resides since shortly after his impeachment.
Hansen, a decent and honest man, was jailed on a bogus two-bit campaign charge which, even if true, was less than the charge brought against Geraldine Ferraro for which she was allowed to skate for a token fine.
Prosecutors have no hesitancy going after people in political office for even the weakest of charges so long as they have an "R" after their name.
Being a CEO didn’t do much for Martha Stewart
As others have noted here, there are numerous people involved including State Department and White House people. A can of worms would be opened and the administration would be covering for everyone passed the election. Comey was bullied and then caved.
Which is bass-ackwards. Politicians (even the good ones) are kind of a semi-necessary scum film parasitizing their livelihood off those of us who create wealth. They’re kind of necessary, but the fact that we could exist without them, but not the other way around, and that we have to work for their pay as well as our own, should always be the first thought in everyone’s mind any time they think of a politician or other public employee. How can they even be entitled to the same degree of presumption of innocence as normal people, ever?
We the people have allowed this transgression and have no one to blame but ourselves. Congress for years have excluded themselves from some of our laws and stolen money from us and we have done nothing.
I guess this means that the little guys don't have a reputation to defend. The politicians and business leaders have people and money to help defend them. We little people don't. Therefore, we can be sacrificed. The role of government is to enure a level playing field. Comey just spoke volumes about how unlevel that field really is.
No offense, but it didn’t take Donald Trump to tell us Hillary Clinton is crooked. I think after twenty some years and multiple investigations, we get the drift.
I never say this about someone’s health.. but from your lips to God’s ears.
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