Quote:Like Robert Hur, Ken Starr had turned up significant evidence. Like Hur, Starr had to evaluate whether, based on the evidence at hand and the trial venue, he had a good chance of winning the case before a jury. And like Hur, Starr concluded he could not win a case at trial against a prominent Democrat.

The Judicial Watch documents from the Starr probe showed that senior Starr prosecutor Paul Rosenzweig concluded the Independent Counsel team could not win a corruption case against Hillary Clinton, despite a mountain of circumstantial evidence. Rosenzweig wrote:

“In a high-profile case of this sort, however, I think that some jurors are likely to put [the Office of Independent Counsel] to the full measure of proof beyond a reasonable doubt and, in effect, insist that circumstantial evidence is an inferior form of evidence on which they cannot convict.” The bottom line, Rosenzweig concluded, was that prosecutors only has a “ten percent” chance of convicting Mrs. Clinton in the case. “Not enough in my view.”

Clinton was not indicted.

Special Counsel Hur reached a similar finding.

“Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur wrote. Biden “is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt.” Biden’s memory was “significantly limited.” Hur concluded: it “would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict [Biden]—by then a former president well into his eighties – of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”

So it appears that President Biden will skate on charges of mishandling classified documents, while a certain former president faces similar charges in Florida. Democrats should thank their lucky stars. Instead, they are whining about the full disclosure and transparency dictated by the very regulations they put in place, hoist on their own petard.