Washington Has Been Obsessed With Punishing Secrecy Violations — until Hillary Clinton
Actvism Munich editorial pick of the day: The Intercept
Notable excerpts:
"What happened here is glaringly obvious. It is the tawdry by-product
of a criminal justice mentality in which – as I documented in my 2011
book With Liberty and Justice for Some – those who wield the greatest
political and economic power are virtually exempt from the rule of law
even when they commit the most egregious crimes, while only those who
are powerless and marginalized are harshly punished, often for the most trivial transgressions.
Had someone who was obscure and unimportant and powerless done what
Hillary Clinton did – recklessly and secretly install a shoddy home
server and worked on Top Secret information on it, then outright lied to
the public about it when they were caught – they would have been
criminally charged long ago, with little fuss or objection. But Hillary
Clinton is the opposite of unimportant. She’s the multi-millionaire
former First Lady, Senator from New York, and Secretary of State,
supported by virtually the entire political, financial and media
establishment to be the next President, arguably the only person
standing between Donald Trump and the White House.
Like the Wall
Street tycoons whose systemic fraud triggered the 2008 global financial
crisis, and like the military and political officials who instituted a
worldwide regime of torture, Hillary Clinton is too important to be
treated the same as everyone else under the law. “Felony charges appear
to be reserved for people of the lowest ranks."
