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buckbova
This story is getting flagged off the front page over and over. Clearly there's a segment that doesn't want to see this news or discussion of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037042

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037308

alva
Definitely HN news worthy regardless of political leaning. These being constantly flagged chips away at the trust I have in HN
whatok
Looks like the FBI statement I posted got unflagged. Definitely disappointed in the flaggers who more than likely did not read it at all.
Veratyr
It may be because there are multiple posts. The first may have been flagged by people who didn't want to see the story, the later posts may have been flagged by both those who didn't want to see the story and those who didn't want duplicates of the same news (I'm in the latter bucket).
whatok
All of the threads were flagged fairly soon after they were initially posted.
simbalion
The FBI says their only reason for not recommending indictment is a lack of precedent. They described multiple felonies. In my lifetime ive never seen such a blatant display of a corrupt U.S. government (i was born after the JFK murder).
five3
Did you forget the entirety of the Reagan and Bush Jr administrations?
ratsmack
They were just as corrupt in their own right, but past corruption does not justify current or future corruption.
five3
You said it was the most blatant display. Ignoring two major presidencies that were blatantly corrupt. Hell the Bush Jr. admin ran a private email server and deleted 5 million~ emails about the Iraq War.
simbalion
but much of their crimes were kept on the down-low. Clinton's has been major news for over a year. Thus, blatant.
random28345
My only wish is that the "no reasonable prosecutor" test would be applied to criminal cases against normal people, and not just the powerful and the privileged.
elgabogringo
They can read your email and listen to your phone calls without a warrant.

They can feel you up and go through all your luggage on any domestic flight.

But they can't prosecute criminal treatment of classified documents.

America is dead. The rule of law is done. It's now a slow descent to totalitarianism.

h_r
The definition of "criminal treatment" is precisely the point here. Merely calling it criminal doesn't make it so.