Ben Sasse on Hillary Clinton’s Emails & the Public Trust

Yesterday, James Comey, the FBI Director, announced that his agency will not be recommending that the Department of Justice bring criminal federal charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding her use of a set of off-the-books, undisclosed, unsecured email servers not only for her personal correspondence but also for her official duties, including highly sensitive material related to foreign intelligence and terrorist-targeting intelligence. The debate about why the crimes are not being prosecuted here should not blind us to a broader, debasing problem in our civic life today. ​ Simply put: Lying matters. Public trust matters. Integrity matters. And woe to us as a nation if decide to forget this. This issue isn’t about political points or presidential politics. It is about whether the people can trust their representatives, those who are supposed to be serving them in government for a time.