Questions Remain

            It is awfully distressing these days to witness the damage being done to our democratic institutions, particularly by leaders who should be models of probity and good conduct. Political corruption is not new, of course. There have been scandals in Washington long before Watergate caused Richard Nixon’s resignation and Oval Office indiscretions led to Bill Clinton’s impeachment. But widespread conspiracies first to prevent the election of Donald Trump and then to remove him from office have raised scandal to an unprecedented level. Our mainstream media has steadfastly refused to cover this story, but the truth is slowly coming out.

            On-going investigations are likely to reveal how corruption has become pervasive in the FBI and the Department of Justice. For starters, we now have the Inspector General’s criminal referral on Andrew McCabe and are only weeks away from his final report on the FBI’s dereliction of duty in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information and the destruction of related emails.

            In the meantime, it appears that the FBI and the Justice Department are ending their stonewalling in providing Congress with subpoenaed copies of former Director of the FBI James Comey’s leaked memos and the text of falsified FISA court applications to obtain warrants to spy on Donald Trump and his entourage. And we will now see how Attorney General Sessions responds to criminal referrals from Congress that spell out specific violations of the law by Comey, McCabe, Loretta Lynch, Hillary Clinton, and other criminal conspirators.

            Major questions remain. Can we expect to see an end to Robert Mueller’s far-reaching inquest, now that Rudy Giuliani has been brought aboard to convince Mueller to put his cards on the table? When the dust finally settles, will justice have prevailed? Will there be consequences for felonies committed by high-ranking officials? Will the law at last be applied to those who have enjoyed immunity from prosecution because rules don’t apply to them as they do to the rest of us?

            Is there an air freshener strong enough to extinguish the stench emanating from the sewer that Washington has become?