Deep State Rot and Corruption Festers with Russiagate Unpunished and Receding
Commentary
As special counsel John Durham’s report demonstrated in stark detail, our national security and law enforcement apparatus has grown hyper-politicized and been weaponized against its perceived opponents.
Since virtually none of the powerful perpetrators of Russiagate—one of the greatest and gravest scandals in American history—have been held to account for it, including by the special counsel himself, that the corruption would fester would seem an inevitability.
And indeed, it has, with the Deep State targeting not just a president it feared and loathed but now also the half-the-country-plus whose views it disfavors as potential domestic terrorists.
It has gotten to the point that talk of pervasive institutional rot (pdf) and corruption (pdf) within the Department of Justice and FBI once limited to coffee shop conspiracists and street corner crackpots has grown, more than justifiably, commonplace among members of Congress….