If Mr. James Peca cares to read the indictment just handed down, and further, listen to the statements of U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, nothing in the indictment points to the voluntary involvement of any U.S. citizen, nor does it even suggest a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians or that any of the Russian interference affected the outcome of the November presidential election. In fact, a careful look at the indictment may support a conclusion that the Russian intent in this entire exercise succeeded in doing exactly what it was meant to and that was to cause so much distraction and division in our country that it would be difficult, at best, to get anything done that would benefit the U.S and its people.

So here we are — 13 months into an investigation started by an invented dossier from a foreign national from Great Britain — Agent Christopher Steele (having been encouraged with money from a U.S. political camp), already having spent millions of U.S. tax dollars, all with the specified purpose to discover a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians that has resulted in nothing. If Mr. Peca has a reason to be upset, it would appear this would light a fire under him and just about every other American taxpaying citizen.

Further, if one reads Investigator Robert Mueller’s opening statement in the indictment, i.e., that any foreign national involving him or herself in a U.S. election is legally liable under federal law, then Mr. Peca, et al, should also question why, in fact, this indictment does not reference any action regarding Mr. Steele’s involvement in that same election. It has been reported that the entire Steele matter has now been turned over to the Department of Justice. But even that action is not widely known — or at least it’s being ignored by those individuals and media outlets, all of which appear to be blinded by their dislike for this administration and its leadership.

If politics could just be put aside for an honest moment, together with the extreme distaste for the 2016 election results by some, and Americans, all, could concentrate their fervor on the divisiveness the anti-democracy activity during and since the November election has caused, we may just begin to clearly see the damage all of it has done to our country. Getting it straight now would seem to me to be the only way we might avoid having to go through it again in the future, and it may, in fact, ensure Americans, those who believe in our democracy and our representative government, still have a future.

PETER KAPUSCINSKI lives in Buckingham County. His email address is petekap@centurylink.net.