From WSJopinion: How many ways in 2016 was James Comey’s FBI bamboozled by Russian disinformation? asks HolmanJenkins
he had received that, if true, was highly discrediting to the Democratic Party and Obama administration. Though he apparently was trying to protect a future Clinton administration, by building one weird decision on another he reopened the Hillary case just before Election Day, resulting in a shift of undecideds to Mr. Trump.about these matters in 2017 “The Trump-Russia Story Starts Making Sense.” The Russian intercept in question remains hidden and highly classified.
Mr. Comey and the FBI, with their deranged actions, not only likely changed the election outcome, a giant embarrassment to the national-security state. But here’s a new consideration: Because of many incidental and not-so-incidental ways their actions intersected with the Democratic Party’s promotion of the Steele dossier, the whole morass gives the Biden administration an extra reason to tiptoe around Mr. Putin.that the information game between the U.S.
Plainly from his statements, Mr. Comey’s overriding fear was that the Russian information about the Democrats, real or fake, would leak to the detriment of the Justice Department and a Hillary Clinton administration. This information still threatens to come out; with what we’ve learned about the Steele dossier, it still threatens to blow up on the FBI and a Democratic administration, just not in the way Mr. Comey envisioned.
Journal Editorial Report: The ‘Russian collusion narrative’ came from Washington. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark KellyAppeared in the November 13, 2021, print edition.
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