As Hillary Clinton is handed another “get out of jail free” card, this time for her email scandal, the Clintons have once again proved its immunity to the rule of law.

The FBI announced Tuesday that Clinton and her staff  “were extremely careless” in the handling of classified information, potentially exposed sensitive information to “hostile third parties,” and lied about turning over all of Clinton’s work related emails.  Yet despite piles of evidence, the FBI director declared “no reasonable prosecutor would charge Clinton.”

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The Great Clinton Escape comes just shy of a year after Navy Reservist Bryan Nishimura was sentenced to two years probation, a $7,500 fine, forced to give up his security clearance, and barred from any clearance in the future for a far more modest endangerment of classified material. His crime? Nishimura used personal mobile devices to download classified briefings — exactly what Hillary did. Like Clinton, the FBI found no malicious intent on the part of Nishimura, deployed twice to Afghanistan — yet as a non-Clinton, Nishimura was still successfully prosecuted, stripped of his security clearance, and banned from ever holding such clearance again.

The email scandal comes as the latest in a long line of slippery incidences in which the Clinton clan has avoided punishment for likely criminal activities. It is not difficult to find a few of their worst offenses:

The Private Email Server
This most recent scandal has definitely made the Top 5 in terms of the Clintons avoiding justice. Hillary Clinton was caught using an elaborate personal email server instead of an official state.gov address to conduct confidential government business. After the State Department requested the emails, Clinton turned over approximately 30,000 of them — minus another 30,000 she deemed “personal.” The FBI found her treatment of sensitive material to be “careless,” confirmed Clinton lied about having never sent emails from the personal server that were classified at the time, and failed to turn over at least 2,000 work-related emails.

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The Whitewater Real Estate Deal
The Whitewater scandal began with a simple real estate deal in Arkansas during the late 1970s. Clinton and her husband joined James and Susan McDougal to buy 220 acres of riverfront property, which formed the Whitewater Development Corporation. This venture failed, with the Clintons reporting $40,000 in net losses. Although the McDougals and other Clinton associates were sent to prison for fraudulent activity (including an illegal federally backed loan), the Clintons were never prosecuted or found guilty of any wrongdoing.

Bill’s Lewinsky Perjury
When President Clinton was accused of having a sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky, Hillary did her best to completely discredit Lewinsky, calling her a “narcissistic loony tune.” She also pointed her finger at Republicans, calling the investigation a “vast right-wing conspiracy.” But crossing the law, President Clinton famously testified under oath that he had never had “sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky. Clinton later admitted he had lied, meaning he also admitted to perjuring himself, which led to his impeachment in the House.

Democrats in the Senate blocked the charges against the president and Bill Clinton was acquitted of all charges.

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Travelgate
Shortly after President Clinton’s election, Hillary Clinton was allegedly behind the firing of seven travel office employees, replacing them with political allies. Amid the resulting fallout, Clinton also made false statements to investigators concerning the matter. Although her statements were later confirmed to be factually false, investigators could not prove they were uttered as intentionally false. Once again, the Clintons walked. 

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The Clinton Foundation
The FBI is continuing a separate investigation into allegations of quid pro quo surrounding Clinton Foundation donations during Hillary Clinton’s  tenure as secretary of state. The FBI has not indicated when the timeline on that investigation, separate from the email server affair, will be concluded. Should the FBI find criminal wrongdoing in that case, it could result in official corruption charges against Clinton. Bill Clinton is also part of that probe, which makes his tarmac meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch all the more controversial.