If you think special counsel
John Durham’s
prosecution of individuals affiliated with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign concerns only ancient history, in one way you’re right.
The FBI seen in the Durham trial is a prelapsarian FBI, nonplussed about how to handle an approach from the campaign of the woman whom all concerned believed would be the next president.
In those more innocent days of 2016, intelligence agency meddling in our election would amount to a comedy of errors, to the disadvantage of Mrs. Clinton, who likely lost because of the late reopening of her email case by the FBI, which certainly wasn’t what the FBI intended.
To Team
Obama
at the time, the threat that needed to be contained in 2016 wasn’t (and never became) Russian meddling, it was the Hillary email investigation. Only later, with Mrs. Clinton’s shocking defeat and the intelligence community’s realization that their actions would come under a scrutiny they never anticipated, was the country plunged into a whole new ballgame: poisonous and illegal intelligence leaks aimed at the incoming Trump administration; peddling by Democrats and the FBI of the Steele dossier; the FBI’s misleading of a surveillance court in order to rummage through the communications of a minor Trump campaign associate.
This new ballgame, this ugly new reality, came into the open in a way that formerly would have been hard to envisage outside
Russia, when 50 former U.S. intelligence officials, led by Obama veterans, concocted and sold to the media a legend about the Hunter Biden laptop story. We now have one foot in a future that should horrify any American, with U.S. intelligence veterans, like Russia’s siloviki, gaslighting our electorate to influence a presidential election.
We, and I mean America, have…