Steve Covello
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

Greed and self-serving culture has been a predictable characteristic of governance since recorded history, so I agree that this investigation will not change that.

I suggest, however, that this is not the motive for the investigation, and I don’t think anyone on either side of the issue (nothingburger vs. get em!) thinks it will change the culture either.

Whether the findings condemn members of one party or another is not as important as strengthening the integrity of the election process as a whole.

What I hope comes out of this is the ability to quarantine the variables that inject doubt into the electoral process — at least to the extent that candidates can no longer claim that an election was rigged one way or the other, or that the American public can be a more sophisticated about the quality and provenance of information they encounter online or in news media. The less gullible we are, the better. Maybe these hearings will illuminate that. That’s all I expect.

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