“It’s okay for national-security state bureaucrats to lie to the elected representatives of the American people, even under oath. In the eyes of federal prosecutors, that’s just no big deal and certainly is not considered to be a criminal offense. But when a private citizen supposedly lies to a federal bureaucrat who is investigating violations of ridiculous laws, rules, regulations, and edicts pertaining to ‘campaign finance laws’ — you know, the laws that keep Big Money out of presidential campaigns — well, then all hell breaks loose, with criminal indictments, prosecutions, and all sorts of pontifications about the importance of citizens telling the truth to federal bureaucrats.”
http://fff.org/2015/10/19/federal-prosecution-for-jesse-benton-and-a-free-pass-for-james-clapper/