<p>As I wrote yesterday, the FBI has rewritten the law to let Hillary Clinton off the hook. This shocking display of corruption is paralleled by another case in 2001, but this time a Clinton was on the other side. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;The closest parallel that we see&hellip;is former CIA director John Deutch, because he did go through this &ndash; he was going to be prosecuted,&rdquo; says Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. ;Chaffetz plans to hold hearings on the FBI&rsquo;s controversial and suspicious decision to let former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton walk away from her crimes unpunished. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I think if you look at the fact pattern &ndash; did she or did she not have classified information in a nonsecure format that went on for years &ndash; the answer&rsquo;s clearly yes. And the statute says that&rsquo;s a violation of the law,&rdquo; Chaffetz said on <em>Fox News </em>earlier ;this week. ;</p>
<p>When FBI Director James Comey made the official announcement on Tuesday, he said that he could find no similar cases that would support bringing criminal charges against Mrs. Clinton. ;As I mentioned above, one needs only to look back a few years to find supporting evidence in the case of John Deutch. ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;This is a person who plugged the computer onto the Internet &ndash; the Department of Justice was going to prosecute him, and then it was President Clinton that offered that person a pardon,&rdquo; said Chaffetz. ;</p>
<p>Deutch had already agreed to plead guilty for mishandling classified information when President Clinton (during his last day as President) stepped in to give him a pardon. ;The exact same situation &ldquo;has been prosecuted, or at least attempted to be prosecuted, in the past. Why the difference now?&rdquo; asks Chaffetz. ;</p>
<p>The ;reason seems clear to me: Deutch wasn&rsquo;t the leading presidential candidate. Even so, government officials have a responsibility to ;follow the law, and Hillary&rsquo;s standing in the polls should not make her immune to prosecution. ;</p>
<p>Chaffetz has &ldquo;a lot of outstanding questions&rdquo; for the FBI, and believes the American people &ldquo;have a right to know the truth.&rdquo; Now that the case is all but over, &ldquo;there&rsquo;s really no excuse not to provide that information to Congress,&rdquo; he said. ;&ldquo;I think the job of the FBI is to provide the fact pattern to the DOJ and not make the political calculation that this is what a reasonable prosecutor would do. That&rsquo;s not the job of the FBI.&rdquo; ;</p>