There are some conflicts in which there is no good guy; everybody is bad. All we can do is hope that everybody involved loses. That’s the case with last week’s indictment by the Trump administration’s Department of Justice of former FBI director James Comey. It’s a politically tainted prosecution of a one-time bureaucrat who has a history of duplicity and of presiding over a politicized law enforcement agency. In this dispute it’s best to wish the parties the worst while hoping the system itself changes.

James Comey has been charged with “willfully and knowingly (making) a materially false, Fictitious, and fraudulent statement“ to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee while under oath when he claimed he “had not ‘authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports’

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