Clinton and Emails

The FBI announcement this week that former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton will not face criminal charges related to her private email server scandal, I would opine evidenced that the rule of law in the United States of America has been perhaps mortally wounded.

The announcement of the FBI admitted what most Americans already suspected; Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to conduct official government business endangered the lives of the American people.The FBI Director also made clear that Hillary Clinton was “extremely careless” in handling our nation’s top secrets. He also noted that “no reasonable person” would believe it to be “appropriate or acceptable” to place emails containing said secrets on a private server. The announcement made it clear that Hillary Clinton lied to the American people about the classified nature of the emails, as the FBI spokesman admitted that at least 110 emails were classified at the time they originated, not after the fact, as the Clinton camp has repeatedly claimed.

On top of that, he also revealed that Clinton had deleted work-related emails from her private server before turning it over to the FBI, again in direct contradiction of claims her campaign has made to the contrary. As if that weren’t enough, he also confirmed the likely possibility that Clinton’s private email server had been hacked by foreign government intelligence services, meaning USA's nation’s rivals were likely in possession of critical state secrets that could potentially be used against the interests of the USA.

Lastly, but certainly not least, he also admitted that anyone else caught in a similar situation and circumstances would most likely be punished to the full extent of the law.

Based on the FBI inquiry and subsequent statement it would be reasonable to conclude that the subject of the inquiry is a corrupt, incompetent and untrustworthy person.

So it seems that in the USA, although I guess not just there, laws only apply to those on the other side of the tracks and not the politically connected elite or perhaps if you can afford a lawyer.

It might be reasonable to suggest that the decision to do nothing could be seen as blow to the rule of law and provides further evidence to support those who have absolutely no faith in the system of law and order nor for that matter politics.