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VDH UltraOur Elite Amoralists

Victor Davis Hanson Octogenarian and ex-congressman, former White House Chief of Staff, and CIA Director (no less), Leon Panetta was just interviewed by Fox News’s Bret Baier. He was asked whether he had any regrets about his participation in the now infamous “51 intelligence authorities” letter that helped warp the 2020 campaign. Panetta said none …

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Demonization of Nunes Is a Window Into Our Times

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Much of what we now know about the unethical and often illegal behavior of the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, and Department of Justice emerged due to the efforts of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Its chairman during its stunning disclosures has been Representative Devin Nunes (R., …

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The Reexamination of Security Clearances Was Long Overdue

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Much has been written about former CIA and FBI official Philip Mudd’s recent unhinged outburst on CNN against Paris Dennard for the latter’s credible suggestion that many ex-officials have monetized the fact that they have retained their security clearances. Dennard was suggesting that those with security clearances, with a …

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History as Nothing Much at All

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Former CIA director Michael Hayden recently tweeted a picture of a Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, with his commentary: “Other governments have separated mothers from children.” The suggestion was that industrialized death on an unprecedented scale was somehow similar to the temporary detention of children once their parents have been …

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Respect Unearned

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness Washington’s self-righteous establishmentarians talk of professionalism when they act unprofessionally. They refer at length to their intellectual and professional pedigrees when they prove incompetent. And they cite their morality and ethics when they possess neither. And then, adding insult to injury, when the public expresses abhorrence at their behavior, …

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Rethinking Watergate

Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution The Watergate break-in is now 45 years old. The scandal is as distant from our own time as it was once from 1928. The median age of Americans is about 38 years old. Half of all Americans were likely born after the break-in. But Watergate is hardly ancient history. …

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The FISA-Gate Boomerangs

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Some things still do not add up about the so-called Steele dossier, FISA warrants, the Nunes memo, and the hysterical Democratic reaction to it. A Big Deal or a Nothing Deal? 1) Progressives and Democrats warned on the eve of the memo’s release that it would cause havoc throughout …

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