{"id":11229,"date":"2018-06-19T15:14:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2018-06-19T15:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T22:14:25","slug":"future-pres-hillary-the-font-of-all-the-scandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/future-pres-hillary-the-font-of-all-the-scandals\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Future Pres\u2019 Hillary \u2014 the Font of all the Scandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">The investigators assumed their new boss would reward them for going to extremes to help her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">R<\/span>eview the Clinton email scandal, the Steele dossier, the insertion of at least one FBI informant into the Trump campaign, the misleading of the FISA court by FBI and DOJ officials intent on monitoring U.S. citizens, and, now, the inspector general\u2019s report. There emerges a common denominator: the surety by all involved that Hillary Clinton would be president, and the need to prepare for that fact.<\/p>\n<p>Examine the IG\u2019s transcript of a random, pre-election series of electronic chitchat between high-ranking FBI employees:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/06\/clinton-email-investigators-broke-rules-to-please-hillary\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The investigators assumed their new boss would reward them for going to extremes to help her. Review the Clinton email scandal, the Steele dossier, the insertion of at least one FBI informant into the Trump campaign, the misleading of the FISA court by FBI and DOJ officials intent on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1158,1151,1150,1145,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2V7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10941,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-ticking-memo\/","url_meta":{"origin":11229,"position":0},"title":"The Ticking Memo","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The House Intelligence Committee memo is pretty simple. It should not have been classified and thus far withheld from the public. In fact, far more information now needs to be released. Despite the outcry, as Chairman Devin Nunes clarified, the memo can easily be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FBI&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FBI","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/fbi\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10948,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/fisa-gate-is-scarier-than-watergate\/","url_meta":{"origin":11229,"position":1},"title":"FISA-Gate is Scarier than Watergate","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The Watergate scandal of 1972\u201374 was uncovered largely because of outraged Democratic politicians and a bulldog media. They both claimed that they had saved American democracy from the Nixon administration\u2019s attempt to warp the CIA and FBI to cover up an otherwise minor, though\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FISA&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FISA","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/fisa\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10857,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/nagging-questions-for-the-special-counselors\/","url_meta":{"origin":11229,"position":2},"title":"Nagging Questions for the Special Counselors","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Corner The one and only By Victor Davis Hanson\/\/National Review \u00a0 1) If the FISA Court orders to explore the purported Trump-Russian collusion were predicated on phony Steele\/Fusion GPS documents and suppositions that prove largely untrue (Comey himself testified under oath that he could not verify their contents), then\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bill Clinton&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bill Clinton","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/bill-clinton\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10921,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/hillarys-sure-victory-explains-most-everything\/","url_meta":{"origin":11229,"position":3},"title":"Hillary\u2019s \u2018Sure\u2019 Victory Explains Most Everything","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/\u00a0National Review \u00a0 What exactly were top officials in the FBI and DOJ doing during the election of 2016? The Page-Strzok text exchanges might offer a few answers. Or, as Lisa Page warned her paramour as early as February 2016, at the beginning of the campaign and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;FBI&quot;","block_context":{"text":"FBI","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/fbi\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10866,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/criticisms-of-comey-and-mueller-arent-character-assassination\/","url_meta":{"origin":11229,"position":4},"title":"Criticisms of Comey and Mueller Aren\u2019t \u2018Character Assassination\u2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Corner The one and only. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review \u00a0 In his efforts to refute Charles Cooke\u2019s recent expos\u00e9 of Jennifer Rubin, I was surprised to see David Frum, in passing, attack my Hoover colleague, legal scholar Peter Berkowitz (a \u201cSean Hannity\u2013style character assassination of James\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DOJ&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DOJ","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/doj\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10943,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-fisa-gate-boomerangs\/","url_meta":{"origin":11229,"position":5},"title":"The FISA-Gate Boomerangs","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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