America is waking up to something the coastal elites and legacy press have been desperate to downplay: the same people who ran the intelligence and legal bureaucracy for years are finally being held to account. Former FBI Director James Comey was federally indicted last month and New York Attorney General Letitia James now faces federal bank fraud charges — and conservative commentators like Matt Taibbi and legal activists such as Mike Davis were right to call attention to what the mainstream media barely touched on during the worst abuses of the last decade.
Jim Comey didn’t get a political dressing-down; he was indicted by a grand jury on serious criminal counts for allegedly lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding stemming from his 2020 testimony. This is not a partisan parade — it’s the outcome of an investigation that finally reached a grand jury and produced an indictment just before the statute of limitations expired.
Letitia James, who made a career out of suing President Trump and his businesses, was also indicted by a federal grand jury on October 9 on bank fraud and false-statement charges related to a 2020 mortgage application. Whether you cheered her civil actions or not, Americans have a right to expect the law is applied evenhandedly — and if prosecutors believe there is a crime, it must be litigated in court, not whispered about in cocktail parties or late-night monologues.
People should also be paying attention to how these cases moved forward: career prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia reportedly resisted bringing these politically explosive charges until the office’s leadership was reshuffled and a new interim U.S. attorney loyal to the administration presented the cases. Those personnel moves and the rushed timelines are exactly why watchdogs and citizens must watch every step of the process — accountability for the powerful must be clean and aboveboard, not a revenge operation dressed up as law enforcement.
Matt Taibbi’s blunt observation on Sunday Morning Futures that domestic political surveillance and the leak-driven campaigns against Americans were an enormous, underreported problem is exactly the kind of wake-up call this country needed. For years conservatives warned about politicized intelligence, and now we’re seeing the legal consequences play out in public; that’s not vengeance, that’s the system working when people refuse to look away.
Let nobody pretend this is tidy or comfortable — the left will scream “weaponization” while the right will cheer every indictment, but neither reflex helps the country. Honest patriots want fair trials, robust evidence, and a Justice Department that enforces the law without fear or favor; if mistakes were made or crimes committed by powerful officials, Americans deserve to see the evidence and a courtroom resolve it. The only real way to heal the country is to demand transparency, support the rule of law, and stop forgiving elites who thought they could operate above the law for a lifetime.
