Staff Reports
The latest reporting that an FBI agent was relieved of duty after refusing to help stage a high-profile “perp walk” for former FBI Director James Comey is the kind of plain-speaking development Americans have been waiting to hear about. Reuters confirmed the personnel action this week, saying the agent was taken off the case after balking at a plan many view as long overdue theater for a man who has evaded accountability for years.
Comey was federally charged on September 25 with making false statements and obstructing a congressional investigation, charges that have finally forced the left’s once-untouchable kingmaker into the legal spotlight. Mainstream outlets documented the indictment and the timeline, and whether you cheer or scoff at prosecutors, the point is simple: no one should be above the law.
FBI Director Kash Patel didn’t waste time calling out the legacy press for its hypocrisy, blasting MSNBC as an “ass clown factory” and telling the media to stop the sanctimonious hand-wringing. Patel’s bluntness is refreshing to working Americans who have had to watch the media cheer public arrests for conservatives while howling when the shoe’s on the other foot.
Let’s be honest about the past: the left’s media machine turned perp walks into spectator sport when they suited their narrative, showering camera shots and editorial drool on every high-profile arrest of Trump allies. Now they pretend a visible arrest is uniquely cruel—what a convenient double standard. Conservatives aren’t naive; we remember the slobbering coverage of Stone, Bannon and others, and we know the media’s outrage is selective and performative.
Critics will point to DOJ guidance discouraging law enforcement from staging photos or assisting the media, and sure, policies exist—but so do norms that have been broken for years by the very institutions now clutching pearls. If leadership at the FBI decides a public booking is warranted, it should be because of law and transparency, not because the press is throwing a tantrum. The real scandal would be letting political favorites skate while ordinary Americans face the music.
At the end of the day, Patriots want fairness, not spectacle for spectacle’s sake—and fairness means holding powerful people to the same rules as everyone else. If the new Justice Department is finally prepared to apply the law equally, Americans ought to support it and demand the same standard for every official, regardless of party or pedigree. The media can scream; real citizens will be grateful to see justice, not special treatment, served.
