But accountability IS important, more than anything perhaps, so that the public has the information needed to make informed choices at the ballot box.
Iran-Contra should have been investigated more. The way we got to the 2008 financial meltdown was very murky and essentially NO ONE was ever held accountable. Who feels like THAT one won't happen again? Remember "too big to fail"? What's been "fixed" in that regard since?
The way president Cheney and his vassal Shrub got us into an illegal, immoral war in Iraq...along with the torture regime run by the neocons and conservative warmongers was a big one. In some ways, Obama wishing to "turn the page" on that one without investigation has led us to where we are today.
And BOY..."where we are today"! Absolutely unprecedented. Can we agree that no one wants abuse of power like this to continue after Trump is sent home to Florida?
I would like to have Josh Marshall at Talking Points memo get this thread started with the following post:
Biden Should Commit to it And Trump Should Be Warned: The Cover Ups End in January
..The truth is that in the most important respects it doesn’t matter that much whether Roger Stone or Paul Manafort or even Donald Trump spend time in prison. But for public accountability it matters a great deal that we the people know what they did. Seeing public bad actors do time is at best a sugar high of public accountability. It metes out, often against a random array of individuals, what it properly addressed at large by exposure and elections. Exposure lights the road to a better future and gives voters the information they need to ensure accountability at the ballot box.
President Trump has not only consistently abused his powers and conflated his personal interest with the national interest. He has used his vast powers of secrecy to conceal his crimes and betrayals. That should stop the day he leaves office and it can be easily done. It doesn’t rely on the courts or the Congress. The new President will inherit all those powers for his own tenure and all past Presidents. As Trump himself has so failed to understand none of these are his powers. They are the powers of the sitting President.