Before you start reading this, im going to put a disclaimer here so I can try and distance myself from any political side or party, because in reality I don’t have one. I have posted in other articles that im consciously choosing to not vote and in my opinion neither major candidate is representative of what I want in my country. That being said I am going to try and keep this short and precise because from what I have written before about other political posts, people tend to not read them if they are too long and just start raging at me in the comments. So I’m going to try and do my best.
The FBI came out in the past few days saying they have no intention of putting Hillary Clinton on trial for her actions in office, which has been met with the outrage of many. Whether or not Hillary Clinton committed crimes that should be punishable by law during her time in office is irrelevant in my opinion. If we put a former secretary of state on trial for crimes they committed in office, it would be bad for all of us. I am very much for transparency, however I also acknowledge there are actions taken during office that no elected official ever wants to get out. In a perfect world I believe there is no need for such actions, but in reality I cant make the government more transparent or stop them from taking place in black ops. A trial that revealed how the secretary of state operates in our country would outrage many in the world who would turn their hatred onto America. We have been able to sustain the wealth and power as a country primarily because we deal in black ops and nontraditional forms of intelligence gathering.
Hanging out our dirty laundry for the whole world to see not only makes us as a country look bad, but vilifies our elected officials. Our elected officials by far aren’t the greatest examples of good human beings, however they are less corrupt than many other around the world. Not to mention many of the trade deals we currently have in place would be affected if certain information that im sure is available, were to leak. For the same reason Ford pardoned Nixon, we should not put Hillary Clinton on trial. I hate the world we are living in and that people like her can get away with things like this, but realistically just because of one bad actor, we as an entire country would get dragged into the fray. I would agree we should put her on trial if things would change, but let’s be realistic, they won’t long term. As long as we have the means to take part in the operations we do, someone will run them. I can guarantee you that every secretary of state/war has taken place in similar types of co ordinance, but hasn’t actually been caught because they weren’t using an email account.
Like I said, Im keeping this one short, but I really wanted to talk on this topic because I have been seeing people everywhere on social media talk about it. When it comes down to it, I don’t think we want to air our dirty laundry to the whole world because I believe it would end up hurting ourselves and our geopolitical relationships in the long run.
-Calaber24p