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The NY Times reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state, according to State Department officials. She may have violated federal requirements that officials' correspondence be retained as part of the agency's record.
Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department. Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act. "It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario — short of nuclear winter — where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business," said attorney Jason R. Baron. A spokesman for Clinton defended her use of the personal email account and said she has been complying with the "letter and spirit of the rules."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Wednesday March 04 2015, @03:40PM
At this point, the US has approximately a 5-tiered "justice" system:
- Poor non-white people: Can be summarily executed for any reason or no reason.
- Poor white people: Will be jailed if they do anything that hurts anyone.
- Middle class people: Will get in trouble if they do anything that really causes a problem, but immune to many laws such as petty traffic offenses.
- Politicians, popular entertainers, lower-level business folks: Immune to most laws, unless they piss off somebody more powerful than themselves.
- Upper-class business folks: Immune to practically all laws. Yes, including murder - there's a case where a business owner ran somebody over in their car and the local authorities refused to prosecute on the grounds that jailing him would cause too many people to lose their jobs.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04 2015, @03:57PM
The most practical definition of power is immunity from consequences.
The more powerful you are, the more severe the consequences you can make go away by applying that power.
Rule of law is supposed to prevent that, but it is a human institution and thus is subject to the application of power itself. The stronger the rule of law, the more power that must be applied to escape it. That's the best we can realistically hope for.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Wednesday March 04 2015, @04:00PM
there's a case where a business owner ran somebody over in their car and the local authorities refused to prosecute on the grounds that jailing him would cause too many people to lose their jobs
Sounds like quite a story. Who is this?