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 isn’t 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 Comey’s decision Tuesday didn’t treat Hillary differently from other high public officials, but he clearly treated her differently from other Americans.
But politicians aren’t 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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HOW CAN ONE NOT BE SURE OF HER CONVICTION???
Great graphic and so true
Didn’t seem to be too high for Richard Nixon. But then Democrats are always much more ready to criminalize their political opponents than the far more passive Republicans, or in fact, most other political colorations of any stripe, except the strictly Socialist variety.
Criminalization of political rivals is a tactic straight out of Saul Alinsky.
The rules of engagement have been set. Should Herself be somehow elevated to the Oval Office, the outright persecution of just about everybody to the right of Herself will begin in earnest and proceed unabated until we have achieved the American Reich.
The Third Reich was an experiment in socialist domination, using the forms and trappings of a supposedly industrialized society, but with the economy turned into a control-and-command model.
Get this one to Trump!
“Will they have the courage to act on behalf of liberty and future generations, or will they be cowered into submission of their rights by the censorship called “political correctness”?
Not a matter of who, but a matter of how many
Nonsense.
The bar wasn't high enough to protect Caspar Weinberger from indictment for Iran-Contra just four days before Bill Clinton's election, but it was too high to indict Eric Holder for running guns to Mexican drug cartels.
Just admit that Democrats get a free pass, except when a lower level Blago takes the rap for a higher level Obama.
-PJ
I disagree. They didn't cover up any evidence as far as I can tell.
They just declined to prosecute a Felony...that they exposed.
In your face.
The law still applies to little people. Only the elites are exempt.
Well, ya can’t trust the government. Never could.
Yes, well said. The short form is “FUBAR”.
The law applies equally to all citizens, or it does not apply at all.
How many Speakers of the House have been prosecuted? I hear they are important
That in itself is true from the email offense perspective. It is the content of what is in them where the real damning evidence is which is being covered up by this action.
“A can of worms would be opened...”
More like a colony of cockroaches, scurrying madly when the lights come on.
And, that is PRECISELY what we need right now. We need a good housecleaning. Time to water Jefferson’s Tree of Liberty, perhaps.
There needs to be serious progress to a Convention of States, or even a split of the nation into the ‘utopia’ the progressives want, and the real freedom that comes with much less government, much more personal freedom, and the obligate to personal responsibility needed to secure that freedom for the future.
....she knows where the bodies are buried.
Ask Clarence Thomas. Ask Bob McDonnell.
"A" felony - just one?
If Comey had any honor he would resign.
If Hillary Clinton wins will she be our first email president?
Cankles skated.
The press elated
Comey hated honesty berated
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