Scott Powell writes for the Federalist about efforts to ensure accountability for Obama-era misdeeds.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is aggressively pursuing options to hold accountable any federal officials for their actions in the Russian collusion hoax, aka Russiagate. This is welcome news to those who have become cynical about our two-tiered justice system, in which Republicans are fair game for prosecution for often made-up crimes and Democrats are insulated and spared for real crimes.
There is now an authorization of a federal grand jury to investigate and hold accountable any federal officials and non-governmental accomplices for conspiring against Donald Trump both before the 2016 election and afterwards.
All of this closely follows the declassification and public release of records from late 2016 and 2017 that show how top intelligence and law enforcement officials — including former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper — conspired to fabricate a narrative that Russia meddled in the 2016 election in order to elect Trump. In spite of a sequence of Intelligence Community Assessments and top intelligence experts objecting to the narrative, even telling Brennan that he was misrepresenting facts and ignoring counter evidence, the cabal went forward for the purpose of crippling the Trump transition and subverting his presidency through an extended coup.
When laws are not enforced and there are no penalties for violations, we get more law-breaking. When lawbreakers are given a pass, or multiple successive passes, not only are the lawless protected, but would-be lawbreakers are empowered and encouraged to do the same or worse. Additionally, when laws are not enforced, they cease to have meaning. And that is when a nation enters a slippery slope of arbitrary and subjective rule and cronyism, which ends in ruin — such as no borders, the hollowing out of citizen rights, and politicization of government.
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