The Last Domino Just Went Down
After decades of Presidential dishonesty, even more decades of Congressional corruption, years of IRS and EPA and Veterans Department abuses, endless trains of wealthy politicians and well to do public servants leaving Washington after lifetimes of abusing their public trust, the FBI was the last bureau Americans still thought above corruption, as untouchable now as it was when Eliot Ness brought down Al Capone.
Thanks to James Comey, the last domino just went down.
The FBI just let the most visible and visibly corrupt politician of this century (OK, it’s only 16 years but, she’s got lots of competition.) off with no prosecution, no slap on the wrist, no sworn deposition, not even a stern word.
Fourteen months after the FBI recommended bringing felony charges against general and Director of the CIA, David Patreus for showing secret documents about his military career to his biographer, Paula Broadwell in the privacy of his own home, the same FBI recommended bringing no charges at all against a former Secretary of State who sent and received tens of thousands of emails, hundreds of which were secret, top secret or, even beyond top secret, over an unsecured server, the same violation for which less than a year earlier she’d fired one of her ambassadors.
Al Capone’s got to be smiling and Eliot Ness must be wondering where we went wrong.
We don’t just remember people for their actions, we remember them for their words:
Marie Antoinette: “Let them eat cake.”
Groucho Marx: “This is no way to live!”
Benito Mussolini: “Shoot me in the chest.”
Somehow Director Comey, I think if you’d known how long your words would be remembered, you’d have done better.
