Staff Reports
James Comey has finally been indicted this week, and hardworking Americans who watched his smug Senate performance are not surprised. Federal prosecutors in Virginia charged the former FBI director with making false statements to Congress and obstruction related to his 2020 testimony, a development that validates long-standing conservative concerns about elite immunity. The indictment strips away some of the untouchable veneer Comey walked around with for years.
The charges trace back to Comey’s Sept. 30, 2020 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, when he insisted he stood by earlier statements denying authorization of leaks about investigations. Republicans pressed the inconsistencies for years, and now the grand jury has concluded there was enough evidence to move forward. This is not politics as usual; it is accountability for a man who once presided over politically weaponized investigations.
The timing and mechanics of the indictment are telling: an interim U.S. attorney installed this week took the case forward after the prior prosecutor resigned under pressure, and prosecutors moved quickly before statute-of-limitations deadlines. That sequence confirms what conservatives have warned about for years — the justice system can be redirected, and when it is, it can finally reach entrenched figures. Americans deserve transparency about how and why these decisions were made.
Watching Comey smirk through those hearings was an insult to civic humility and to the oath the FBI is supposed to embody. He acted like a man above the law, lecturing the nation while his own testimony unravelled under scrutiny. If he had any sense of the gravity of these proceedings, he would have kept his mouth shut and let the process play out; instead we get smugness followed by an indictment.
Democrats and establishment media predictably howl about politicization, while President Trump and his allies celebrated the move as long overdue accountability. The left’s reflexive outrage rings hollow when their standard practice has been to shield allies and weaponize prosecutors against opponents for a decade. Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department publicly emphasize that no one is above the law, a principle conservatives have demanded be applied evenly.
This moment also exposes hypocrisy: the same people who spent years defending leaks, selective disclosures, and politicized probes now claim persecution when one of their icons is held to account. If the rule of law matters, it must be enforced equally — whether the target is a disgraced ex-president’s critic or a former FBI director with a history of partisan behavior. Calls from some quarters to investigate other prominent critics should be met with the same seriousness, not selective outrage.
Patriots who love this country want the institutions rebuilt on impartiality, not revenge or protection rackets for the political class. This indictment is a chance to prove that justice means equal treatment, to stop the double standards, and to restore public confidence in law enforcement. Hold the line: facts matter, accountability matters, and no one who betrays the public trust should get a free pass.
