I'm not too surprised in this outcome. It has nothing to do with Hillary being rich and famous and everything to do with her being a Presidential candidate, and

I'm not too surprised in this outcome. It has nothing to do with Hillary being rich and famous and everything to do with her being a Presidential candidate, and the front-runner, to boot. Imagine this scenario: The FBI indicts Hillary. The trial itself would derail the election cycle, and there would be a fantastic chance that it costs Hillary either the nomination or the general election. Then further imagine that the FBI fails to convict her through a jury -- or even if they did convict her, imagine one of the upper courts overturns on appeal. The FBI would have accused (indicted) a front-runner presidential candidate and destroyed her chance at winning... only to fail to convict. That would not only unfairly destroy a found-not-guilty Clinton's presidential ambitions, but it would obliterate any trust in the FBI to remain, at least to the public eye, apolitical. There's a reason the Attorney General passed the buck, and there's a reason Director Comey declined to recommend charges, and it's this: this is not a slam-dunk case. She may very well be guilty, but for Hillary Clinton, front-runner for the national election for President, the standard of proof is so high that there must be a 100% guarantee of conviction for the FBI to bring forth charges. Yes, if a normal person had done these things, they would be charged. But if a normal person had allegedly done these things, been indicted by the FBI, and then found innocent, the nation-wide and political trust in the FBI wouldn't go completely down the drain. In all likelihood, a normal person would settle out of court -- something that's not in Hillary's best interest. She needs to be found not-guilty to be President, and settling out of court would look guilty, so they'd go to trial -- again, there's a non-trivial chance that she'd be found "not guilty" by the jury, and the FBI can't risk that in such a high-profile case with such disastrous consequences. So again, this isn't super surprising when you think about the consequences of indicting Hillary but failing to secure a conviction. The risk to the American legal system just isn't worth it over a couple of emails. With that in mind, this isn't necessarily Comey declining to charge Clinton; this is Comey passing the buck to the Senate. Now, once she's a sitting President, the Senate can impeach her, and we're in different territory. The Senate is supposed to be political in ways that the FBI is not. TL;DR The problem isn't that she didn't commit enough of a crime to indict, the problem is that it isn't a guaranteed SLAM DUNK case, and since that's true, it's TOO RISKY to the election cycle and legal system to indict her.