The indictment of James Comey should be the beginning of legal action taken against powerful individuals who abused their positions.

Rabbi Dr. Avraham Twersky once mused that if Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, occurred once every 50 years, a person who was alive when the day arrived would feel awfully lucky: he can clean out his closet of bad behavior, something that would not have been possible had he passed away just a year earlier. As it is, Yom Kippur comes every year, and I still marvel that my public school in the Chicago suburbs had the day as an official holiday. The fact that God gave the Jews Yom Kippur for atonement means two things: we do sin as per Torah law, and God in His infinite mercy allows us to find a way back to being better people. Fasting is the outward, well-known side of Yom Kippur. The 12 hours of intense prayers is the engine that runs the day.

Just as an individual needs atonement, so does a body politic. The recent indictment of Comey is a good start in that direction. A cynic would say that his indictment and the recent rummaging of the FBI through John Bolton’s boxers are simply payback for the way Donald Trump and his associates were treated. And if one lived his life without his glasses on, yes, the outward actions do seem very similar: federal intrusion followed by a real risk of losing one’s freedom during incarceration. The difference is in the details. Donald Trump and his friends were harassed, indicted, and even prosecuted and jailed as a form of political retribution. Had Donald Trump retired to play golf and build tall buildings, none of the cases brought against him would have been invented. The fact that the legal cases brought against Trump either collapsed or were thrown out is proof that they were built on sand for political and not legal reasons. The same cannot be said of Comey and his fellow criminal bureaucrats and politicians. Adam........

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