The higher you go in any organization the more it takes to hold them truly accountable, there is too much wiggle room, too many ways to find scapegoats, too much plausible deniability. That’s why corporate CEOs usually aren’t held accountable while underlings fall on their swords. Here we have the worst case scenario where these people working in the deep state wrote the rules we’d like to hold them accountable for, and it’s not like they came to work one day and said “Hey, I know! Let’s re-write our rules and policies to really hold our feet to the fire if we ever get caught doing the kind of stuff we do everyday!”.
Federal laws are weak - why? Well, who makes them? And for how long has Congress and the administrative state been in the mutual self-preservation business? Unless they can nail Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Hillary, etc with hard evidence that they themselves personally did something illegal, they’re gonna walk. However they will have to live under a cloud, not as the heros and sages they see themselves as. The loss of reputation, ego, and legacy will be more punitive to people like them than most of us can imagine.
And who knows, it ain’t over til it’s over, we’ll see what happens. But Trump has been very clear about “this can never happen to another President”. He means exactly that, he wants to fix the system, implement strong policies, and put new laws with strong penalties in place. As he’s done all along, he will take the slings and arrows in order to make America Great Again for future leaders who follow in his footsteps.
While I believe what I posted is true, let me add that this rumor comes from a lawyer (which sounds almost like “liar” for a reason) and first of all, who thinks a US Attorney is going to tell someone yeah, you’re a target but why don’t you come talk with us anyhow? Comey told Trump he wasn’t a target too....just lies.
Secondly, for this to be true it implies a leak, and Durham is known to be a tyrant when it comes to secrecy. So either the lawyer is making it up, was fed disinformation to see if he would leak it to the press, or there’s a leak of true information from the Durham team (which is very unlikely).
That said, I am not counting on high level people being indicted for the reasons given, but it would be terrific to be proven wrong.