Little recourse, little consequence: Court rulings signal impunity for Spygate perpetrators

Lack of Accountability

• Since former Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign to sway the 2016 presidential election, no one aiding or conducting the government's investigations has faced serious consequences for what transpired in the preceding three years of probes.
• Former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith was the only one convicted of a crime.

Most high-profile players in the Russia investigation are enjoying prominent positions in media and academia while raking in dollars from speaking fees and book deals.

• Former FBI Director James Comey, for example, is now a No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, prominent Twitter personality, highly paid public speaker, and big-name faculty member at multiple colleges.

Andrew McCabe, Comey’s No. 2 at the FBI and later the acting director of the FBI, has also enjoyed post-government rewards, becoming a CNN contributor, bestselling author, and visiting professor at George Mason University.

• McCabe argued “strongly” to include information from the Steele dossier in the “main body” of an intelligence community assessment on Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election
• Former FBI agent Peter Strzok exchanged a series of partisan text messages disparaging Trump with former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was having an extramarital affair
• Meanwhile, longtime Justice Department official Andrew Weissmann - now an MSNBC legal analyst and New York University law professor - was tapped by Mueller to be a senior prosecutor in the special counsel investigation

Hillary Clinton

• Clinton approved the release of hacked emails during the 2016 election

Trump had filed a lawsuit alleging Clinton, the FBI, and others colluded to contrive Russia allegations against him during the 2016 campaign.

• U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks, who sits on the bench in Florida and was appointed by former President Bill Clinton, dismissed the suit on Thursday, offering a stinging rebuke to the lawsuit's length and legal reasoning.

Critics view the US justice system as a two-tiered system riddled with double standards

• “Americans are painfully aware that a double standard is in play. Being able to obtain justice through our courts is a crucial element of protecting individual rights and our republic and to avoid violence."

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