# Why isn't Hillary clinton in jail? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 20, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125 "2015-04-20T16:26:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/101 "2015-04-20T23:47:02Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > So why should I indulge them in their scheme? If they can’t articulate the immoral act they are searching for, that is pretty much the definition of a fishing expedition. Doesn’t matter. Even a person with the most honest reputation possible should still be censure for review in such a situation. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/102 "2015-04-20T23:47:40Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > to all the people defending Hillary: > > what would your reaction had been if Rumsfeld had deleted 30,000 secret emails? I’d be surprised the number wasn’t higher. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/103 "2015-04-20T23:56:35Z")
While I’d be surprised Rumsfeld knows how to use email. I do think, though, that he’s smarter than to leave an electronic paper trail. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/104 "2015-04-21T00:01:28Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > Doesn’t matter. Even a person with the most honest reputation possible should still be censure for review in such a situation. What situation? Are we back to who did what with a personal email account? You have to trust everyone, or no one. You can’t single out Hillary just because of personal animus. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/105 "2015-04-21T00:02:53Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > Doesn’t matter. Even a person with the most honest reputation possible should still be censure for review in such a situation. Are you a fucking idiot? Obviously, Mitt Romney is a terrible immoral person too! After all , he wouldn’t release his tax returns! The scoundrel! Where was your fucking outrage then, you lying troll? Go back to Freeperland where they will cheer your idiocy. Jesus Christ, do you people actually think anybody is fooled by your little acts? “Oh I’m just asking questions and I’ve NEVER voted for a Republican.” I’m wondering why not a single GOP candidate for President (declared or not) has stated categorically that he/she hasn’t murdered a hooker or raped a child. Just asking questions after all. They should be willing to make every single email/letter they’ve ever sent since taking office public, just to prove their innocence. Otherwise, they must be HIDING SOMETHING! Moron. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/106 "2015-04-21T00:03:49Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > What situation? Are we back to who did what with a personal email account? You have to trust everyone, or no one. You can’t single out Hillary just because of personal animus. Wow, you’re REALLY on the Hillary bad wagon, aren’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/107 "2015-04-21T00:05:52Z")
> [@Zakalwe](#): > > Are you a fucking idiot? Obviously, Mitt Romney is a terrible immoral person too! After all , he wouldn’t release his tax returns! The scoundrel! Where was your fucking outrage then, you lying troll? Go back to Freeperland where they will cheer your idiocy. > > Jesus Christ, do you people actually think anybody is fooled by your little acts? “Oh I’m just asking questions and I’ve NEVER voted for a Republican.” > > I’m wondering why not a single GOP candidate for President (declared or not) has stated categorically that he/she hasn’t murdered a hooker or raped a child. Just asking questions after all. They should be willing to make every single email/letter they’ve ever sent since taking office public, just to prove their innocence. Otherwise, they must be HIDING SOMETHING! > > Moron. Actually, Romney and his tax returns are a perfect parallel to this situation. Fell free to examine my post history on this board if you think I am a republican. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/108 "2015-04-21T00:06:14Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > Wow, you’re REALLY on the Hillary bad wagon, aren’t you? Wow, you really have a hard on for Hillary, don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/109 "2015-04-21T00:08:48Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Wow, you really have a hard on for Hillary, don’t you? Yeah, I do. Doesn’t change anything. I wouldn’t trust any elected official me “I didn’t withhold any emails when I deleted my account. Trust me, I didn’t. Nothing here needs to be reviewed.” ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/110 "2015-04-21T00:10:43Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > Yeah, I do. Doesn’t change anything. I wouldn’t trust any elected official me “I didn’t withhold any emails when I deleted my account. Trust me, I didn’t. Nothing here needs to be reviewed.” But you will trust any elected official who says, “I never used my personal account for any government business. Trust me, I didn’t. Nothing here needs to be reviewed.” ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/111 "2015-04-21T00:14:35Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > But you will trust any elected official who says, “I never used my personal account for any government business. Trust me, I didn’t. Nothing here needs to be reviewed.” no ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/112 "2015-04-21T00:24:11Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > no So name a Republican presumptive candidate who you would be OK with demanding all his personal email to be turned over to the DNC so they can scour it for unfortunate phrasing or embarrassing quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/113 "2015-04-21T00:37:38Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > So name a Republican presumptive candidate who you would be OK with demanding all his personal email to be turned over to the DNC so they can scour it for unfortunate phrasing or embarrassing quotes. Apples and oranges She had her personal emails mixed with her govt emails. Which, she wasn’t supposed to do to begin with. I’m not going to trust such a person to tell me they had honestly divided up those emails after they got caught. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/114 "2015-04-21T00:40:38Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Wow, you really have a hard on for Hillary, don’t you? > [@Robert163](#): > > Yeah, I do. Doesn’t change anything. I wouldn’t trust any elected official me “I didn’t withhold any emails when I deleted my account. Trust me, I didn’t. Nothing here needs to be reviewed.” It does make changes tough, for example I’m changing my opinion about you and I will have to put you in the column of the ones that are willing to become the monster in the quest of an alleged one. - See Captain Ahab. As I pointed before I think what Hillary did deserve criticism, but it is by seeing the crazy rhetoric used to defend the idea that a crime was committed when the evidence is so flimsy that what I only fear is to see the Republicans to yet again fall for loopy conspiracies that then will convince most independents and even moderate Republicans to abandon the crazy ship. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/115 "2015-04-21T00:43:16Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > Apples and oranges > > She had her personal emails mixed with her govt emails. Which, she wasn’t supposed to do to begin with. Wrong. So long as she turns over the government emails, she was free to use what ever account she wanted to. Seems like a bad idea, but it was the law at the time. Not illegal, not immoral. And certainly not subject to second-guessing by political adversaries. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/116 "2015-04-21T00:43:33Z")
The election isn’t for another year and a half. You guys seriously need to pace yourselves. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/117 "2015-04-21T00:44:43Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > The election isn’t for another year and a half. You guys seriously need to pace yourselves. I prefer to see at as sharpening my claws. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/118 "2015-04-21T00:53:15Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I prefer to see at as sharpening my claws. From across the border it looks more like scraping your claws down to a bloody nub a year early but hey, you enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/119 "2015-04-21T00:53:32Z")
In another thread we learn _Hillarie has big pus zitts and $2.5 billion._ If you rearrange the letters of that, you get _Shit! U.S.A. paid Benghazi’s Bill $5.2 trillion._ Or, consider typical praise from a I-love-Hillary loon: _Ah, wow! That there Hillary is a very cool girl: Classy, no slouch. Seh rerinses her email and doesn’t afraid of anything._ Again, just rearrange the letters to learn the truth. _Gosh, y’all. Shheeet, fools! Clinton who is a lying liar and a very criminaly con-fraudster. I hate her trashed-whore ass._ Send in Sheriff Joe Arpaio to make the arrest. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125/120 "2015-04-21T00:55:13Z")
> [@Barack\_Obama](#): > > If she even gets a single vote I will have lost a great deal of faith in our society and may consider more radical actions towards this Government. She pretty much has the election in the bag. What did you have in mind Barry? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-hillary-clinton-in-jail/718125.md?page=7)