Comment by na85
9 years ago
There are numerous more egregious cases of senior US political officials breaking the law and/or violating their constitution with no consequences.
If charges are pressed in this case it'll be because of her gender.
9 years ago
There are numerous more egregious cases of senior US political officials breaking the law and/or violating their constitution with no consequences.
If charges are pressed in this case it'll be because of her gender.
I would say that the "3 Felonies a Day" theory applies equally if not even more-so to someone like the Secretary of State. It's probably very hard if not impossible to actually do your job as a high ranking government official and not end up breaking a few laws.
The problem is once said law-breaking becomes widely reported and results in State Department and FBI inquiries, where do you go from there? How can they come back with a recommendation not to prosecute Clinton, but yet they vigorously prosecute people like Aaron Swartz?
However, I do disagree strongly with you that if charges are pressed it has anything to do with her gender. If it were John Kerry who had been SoS when Clinton was, operating kerryemail.com, and he was now running for President, I think we would be in exactly the same position.
Because of her gender? No way.
Because she's unpopular with a large segment of the population, and therefore has less political cover than some of those other people? Maybe.
Because we're getting less tolerant of "senior officials" who can ignore the rules? Hopefully that.
Does Poe's law apply here?