Charles Krauthammer said deciding not to probe Hillary Clinton is the "right thing," but called the move the equivalent of issuing a pardon. <blockquote>CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think it's the right thing. Procedurally, not quite, but this is the equivalent of him saying, issuing a pardon. And there are a lot of people who are saying, well, what about justice here? Well, the point of the pardon power, which is always rather odd in any constitution, is to allow political expediency or, if you like, reasons of state to trump justice. Obviously, if you can issue a pardon, you're going around justice but you're saying some things for the country are more important. Like the Nixon pardon, he might have been guilty, he never was tried. But it was done so the country wouldn't have to suffer that long national nightmare anymore and it was the right thing to do which I think many people today who objected at the time recognize. I think it's right to do it. You put that behind us. Yes, there are probably offenses which are prosecutable, maybe she would be convicted, but that's not what we want to do. We do not want to see national political opponents putting each other in jail. So even though procedurally he's not supposed to say this because he's not the one who would decide whether there would be a special prosecutor, it's the equivalent of saying, when I'm sworn in, I would issue a pardon and that's I think the right thing to do.</blockquote> Amy Walter said: "It is still the Department of Justice who gets to make these decisions." <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/amyewalter">@amyewalter</a>: “It is still the Department of Justice who gets to make these decisions.” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SpecialReport?src=hash">#SpecialReport</a> <a href="https://t.co/kPi35TULkk">pic.twitter.com/kPi35TULkk</a></p>— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/801210108919377920">November 22, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>