Andrew C. McCarthy — It Wasn’t Comey’s Decision to Exonerate Hillary – It Was Obama’s

In his April 10 comments, Obama made the obvious explicit: He did not want the certain Democratic nominee, the candidate he was backing to succeed him, to be indicted. Conveniently, his remarks (inevitably echoed by Comey) did not mention that an intent to endanger national security was not an element of the criminal offenses Clinton was suspected of committing – in classic Obama fashion, he was urging her innocence of a strawman crime while dodging any discussion of the crimes she had actually committed.

As we also now know – but as Obama knew at the time – the president himself had communicated with Clinton over her non-secure, private communications system, using an alias. The Obama administration refused to disclose these several e-mail exchanges because they undoubtedly involve classified conversations between the president and his secretary of state. It would not have been possible to prosecute Mrs. Clinton for mishandling classified information without its being clear that President Obama had engaged in the same conduct. The administration was never, ever going to allow that to happen....

Plausible. Will there be an investigation. Most probably this as about the same probability of going anywhere as Bush and Cheney being investigated for war crimes and torture.

National Review — The Corner
It Wasn’t Comey’s Decision to Exonerate Hillary – It Was Obama’s
Andrew C. McCarthy

Jed S. Rakoff — The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted?

Five years have passed since the onset of what is sometimes called the Great Recession. While the economy has slowly improved, there are still millions of Americans leading lives of quiet desperation: without jobs, without resources, without hope.

Who was to blame? Was it simply a result of negligence, of the kind of inordinate risk-taking commonly called a “bubble,” of an imprudent but innocent failure to maintain adequate reserves for a rainy day? Or was it the result, at least in part, of fraudulent practices, of dubious mortgages portrayed as sound risks and packaged into ever more esoteric financial instruments, the fundamental weaknesses of which were intentionally obscured?

The New York Review of Books (Jan 9, 2014)
The Financial Crisis: Why Have No High-Level Executives Been Prosecuted?
Jed S. Rakoff | U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York
(h/t Ryan Harris in the comments)

Judge Rakoff is not going to let this die.

Travesty of justice as double standard applied

“To me the irony of this whole thing is, very simply, that he’s going to be the only C.I.A. officer to go to jail over torture,” even though he publicly denounced torture, Mr. Riedel said. “It’s deeply ironic under the Democratic president who ended torture.”

The New York Times | US
Former C.I.A. Officer Is the First to Face Prison for a Classified Leak
Scott Shane

I join those who hope to see Barack Obama and his sycophantic attorney general Eric Holder in a dock at the Hague along with George W.Bush, Dick Cheney, and their cohorts, indicted for crime against humanity and state-sponsored obstruction of justice.

Using the law to intimidate is one of the hallmarks of tyranny. For a president who is also a constitutional lawyer to do it is beyond the pale.