Yet, we have a number of folks on this thread who don't agree with that. They want to let these folks off the legal hook.
The danger of course in letting high government officials off the hook is that you only encourage more corruption in the future.
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn