Commentary

I have frequently devoted space to call for individuals to be held accountable for their actions.  Hillary Clinton for the loss of lives in Benghazi and President Biden for the loss of lives in his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, are two that come to mind.

I’m still hopeful that Special Counsel John Durham will reveal those accountable for the four-year deep state effort to accuse President Trump of colluding with Russians.  Those involved must be held accountable.

Ac-count-a-bil-i-ty:  “An acceptance of responsibility and ethical conduct towards others, taking responsibility for something you have done or something you are supposed to, being answerable to the actions and decisions made by you and by those you lead.”

Now that it has been revealed that details of the Hunter Biden scandal were intentionally kept from the public during the 2020 election, there is another call for accountability.

Those involved in the suppression of the story and smearing the story as Russian disinformation in Big Tech, the mainstream media, and leftist politicians must be held accountable.

“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that that are pure distractions.” Terrance Samuels, NPR’s Managing Editor for News

Then there are those 50 former intelligence officials who signed a letter just weeks before the 2020 election claiming that the Hunter Biden story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” adding that “each of us believes deeply that American citizens should determine the outcome of elections, not foreign government.”

Joe Biden, the guy who told us, “I will always tell you the truth,” knew the laptop was Hunter’s and knew the emails were true, said, “Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s (Trump) accusing me of is a Russian plan,” said Biden during the final presidential debate in Nashville, obviously delighted with the deep state cover.

No matter that the letter included phrases like, “we don’t know if the emails … are genuine or not,” “we do not have evidence of Russian involvement,” “our experience makes us deeply suspicious,” and ”we do not know whether these press reports are accurate.”

Former intelligence officials Jim Clapper, Mike Hayden, Leon Panetta and John Brennan and 47 others had no problem signing this letter.

How hypocritical, I thought, as I read their concern about the damage “foreign interference in our politics can do to our democracy,” when they were among the deep state weasels, who not only participated in the effort to interfere with the Trump presidency, while accusing Trump of doing damage to our democracy.

Jen Psaki was more than happy to confirm the intel official letter attributing the story to Russian disinformation in a Tweet just before the election, but last week, following the New York Times belated acknowledgement that emails in the Hunter Biden laptop scandal had been “substantiated,” Real Clear Politics correspondent Phil Wegman asked her for comment, and this was her response:

“I’d point you to the Department of Justice and also to Hunter Biden representatives.  He doesn’t work in government.”

Wegman should have come back with, ‘no, he doesn’t, but he had Secret Service protection and he flew with the president to China and Mexico on Air Force Two, and was doing business with people who knew he was the son of the president of the United States.’

And, he could have pursued another line of inquiry about the email that discussed a provisional agreement that “equity will be distributed as follows:  “20 (likely 20%) for H (Hunter)” and “10 held by H for the big guy,” and asked if President Biden is the “big guy.”

Now that the vaunted New York Times has substantiated that the Hunter Biden emails are genuine, and two well-documented books – “Laptop from Hell,” by Miranda Devine, and “Red Handed,” by Peter Schweizer – are being read by millions of voters in both parties, the Biden administration better prepare for future queries.

It’s unlikely that we’ll see any accountability in the eight months leading to the midterm elections.  The Democrats’ hold on the House and Senate are already dubious.

A number of Republicans have indicated that they intend to pursue accountability if they regain the House and Senate.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.