What is the most important issue of the 2016 election?

Roger L. Simon writes at PJ Media,

The leading contender for the Democratic Party nomination is under investigation by the FBI on two basic tracks.

The first is for national security violations regarding her grossly negligent use of a private email server and unsecured BlackBerry (when traveling abroad!) for all her official business as secretary of state, including housing 22 emails on the server deemed so "top secret" that the State Department has refused to make them public. (There is much more, easily found on the Internet. Beyond even that, there is the matter of the erased hard drive with thirty thousand or so more emails of a self-described personal nature like "yoga lessons," which many assume the FBI has recovered and whose contents are yet to be revealed.)

The second, perhaps even more serious, malfeasance is various crimes related to what is popularly known as influence-peddling performed by then-Secretary of State Clinton with foreign nationals and officials in connection with her multi-million, possibly billion, dollar family foundation. If true, for a normal citizen, conviction would likely result in multiple years in prison. David Petraeus has already suffered for similar, though lesser, crimes.

This is far and away the most important issue of election 2016. All others pale compared to it. How our government -- FBI and DOJ -- resolves this investigation will affect the very backbone of our country: the rule of law. No democratic society can exist without it. No person, no matter how high, can be above it. Without the rule of law, the United States of America as we know it does not exist.

So when I write that FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Loretta Lynch have the whole country in their hands, I mean it. Whatever conclusions they come to, assuming they come to the same ones, somehow the vast majority of our citizens must be convinced they have reached those conclusions honorably, fairly and correctly. This won't be easy, no matter what hints or leaks occur, but somehow that information must get out to every extent possible, because the public must be reassured. (Of course, if Clinton is indicted, a trial will go forward -- unless she is pardoned.)

If Comey and Lynch do not come to the same conclusion, if the FBI director recommends prosecution and the attorney general demurs, it's almost impossible to say what the result will be, except that it won't be good. It's already a foregone conclusion the disagreement would be leaked.

Most of all, anyone who cares about this country -- and that should mean Republicans and Democrats -- should not want a guilty Hillary Clinton in the White House. My greatest fear is that many of the Democrats would not or do not care, in which case our country is already in drastic, probably irreparable, free fall.

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