let's suppose that you're a pedophiliac, republican representative from florida, and it comes out that you've sent sexually explicit email messages to congressional pages. maybe you've even diddled a few. so you decide to skip running again and 'retire'. after all, you'll get a congressional pension and health insurance for the rest of your life - what have you got to lose?but then florida police start to look into whether or not what you did might be - oh, i don't know - let's say illegal as hell. and to prove their case, they ask for copies of your email files. naturally, you say no, because prison is for little people. so the police go to congress and ask them for your email messages. and they say no. because foley was a congressman, and if they let one of their own go to prison, what's to stop us from sending any other member of congress that allegedly commits statutory rape from going to prison?
because we're congress. we make the law. we don't have to follow it. the law is for little people. just ask tricky dickless.