With regards to the chants of “Lock Her Up”, that is a sentiment that I truly understand. And I understand that sentiment in ways that most people cannot begin to understand. I am one of those people who spent pretty much my entire career doing classified research, and that classification was well beyond Top Secret. In order to do the job that I was hired to do, I had to sign documents that contained the words “Punishable by fines, imprisonment or death” for misuse of classified information. I, and the people that I worked with, were routine subjected to briefcase searches, vehicle searches, and I know people who were subjected to polygraph tests without any warnings, and were disciplined (sometimes in rather harsh ways) for failing a polygraph test. My private life was routinely thoroughly investigated, in efforts to ensure that there were no personal areas that could result in my being subjected to blackmail. I lived under surveillance, and knew full well that my phone was tapped. And I know of circumstances where people were disciplined for bad security practices, and in some cases rather severely.
In short, I know full well that if I had done a small fraction of the security transgressions that are irrefutable in Mrs. Clinton’s case, the very best that I could hope for would be that I would be housed in a penitentiary for the rest of my life. There is absolutely no question in my mind that the investigation into Mrs Clinton’s security infractions were purely theatrical in nature, they were never serious inquiries, and that her actual offenses were blatantly ignored. And the reason why her offenses were ignored is because if she was elected as President, as expected, then those who did not ignore her offenses would meet with severe retribution having roles that were subservient to the presidency.
So, since she did not get elected, and since we are routinely preached about “Equal Justice Under the Law”, and since no such justice was ever prosecuted, and since many people who had far less security infractions are in penitentiaries, I, for one am rather upset, that she gets to walk away without so little as a formal disciplinary action. From my perspective, in a just world, she should have been locked up many years ago.
