adminJames Comey’s public unraveling over how the FBI and the Department of Justice handled January 6 has finally collided with reality, and conservatives should not be surprised by what it reveals. Last month a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Comey with making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding — charges that underline how dangerously close politics and law enforcement have become.
The indictment itself did not come from a vacuum; it followed a White House push to install a handpicked U.S. attorney who moved forward despite objections from career prosecutors, a fact that exposes the Biden-era norm of DOJ insulation being shredded under pressure and counter-pressure. That intervention proved the rule: when politics calls the shots, justice becomes a weapon and the public loses faith.
The same week a long-hidden FBI after-action report surfaced showing the bureau deployed 274 agents to the Capitol on January 6 — many of whom later complained that they had been “used as pawns in a political war.” Those rank-and-file voices painted a picture of chaos and politicization at the Washington Field Office, not the steady guardianship of neutral law enforcement the public was promised. Americans deserve a calm, professional FBI, not one riven by faction and narrative management.
Comey’s own response has been telling: defiantly proclaiming innocence and urging DOJ and FBI employees to “fight for the rule of law” while characterizing those who disagree with him as “evil” or “weak.” That posture is not humility or contrition — it’s the self-righteousness of a bureaucrat who believes his political judgments are beyond scrutiny and who deploys moral theater to shield his record. The public is right to ask whether the man who presided over the agency during its most politicized episodes can claim the moral high ground.
Mark Levin and other conservatives are right to call this out as part of a larger pattern: selective enforcement, double standards on protest and riots, and the weaponization of our justice institutions to score partisan points. Experts and former insiders have openly questioned the strength and motives behind these prosecutions, arguing that what’s at stake is the integrity of the rule of law itself when discretion is exercised for political ends. This isn’t about cheering indictments; it’s about restoring equal justice under law.
If patriots want a functioning republic, we must demand accountability and transparency at the DOJ and FBI while rejecting both mob rule and the managerial arrogance of those who think they are above the law. Congress and the courts must finish what the American people deserve: a real airing of facts, protections for career professionals who refuse to be politicized, and an end to the partisan nullification of immigration and other core laws in service of raw political power. The future of our country depends on whether we insist on these basic remedies now.
