“declined to prosecute the senior Justice Department official”
I’m so sick and tired of DOJ officials having special privileges. We are becoming a feudal society where lords, dukes, gentry have special rights and protections compared to the peasantry.
When perps are allowed to retire instead of being prosecuted, there is usually a very clear reason: this is not the first time it’s happened, and if they pursue prosecution of this case then the previous ones where perps were allowed to retire will come out in discovery, and they do NOT want that. It’s the old saying about “what a tangled web we weave” - onc they start down the wrong path there is no incentive to deviate.