Hmm. So you think the DoJ won’t live up to the “J” in its name.
Actually I do, under AG Barr, but I shouldn’t have used the word “guilty”. I should have said that some pretty despicable people who have done very bad things are going to go scot-free, because under our system of justice that’s what happens when you do very bad things that don’t happen to be a crime. I do believe everything that can be proven to the standard of the law that was a crime will be prosecuted. That’s what Barr has always said and I see no reason to doubt him. Getting a jury to convict is obviously a completely different issue.
In the common-sense meaning of the word “justice” rather than the legal one, accountability and punishment may have to come in other forms for some of the spygate perpetrators, such as loss of status, ridicule, financial loss, damage to reputations and legacies, etc. But I think that will hurt some of them more than going to prison would. What I meant to say is that it’s inevitable that some will feel that some perpetrators “got away with it”, and that has always been true throughout history.
I have noted several times that President Trump often speaks about how “this must never happen to another President”. He’s the person who has been harmed more than anyone, yet he’s always been more about fixing the system for the future than about getting revenge against those who have harmed him. A pretty Christian attitude...