{"id":11749,"date":"2019-04-01T16:51:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T23:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11749"},"modified":"2021-07-26T09:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:07:32","slug":"the-tables-turn-in-russian-collusion-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-tables-turn-in-russian-collusion-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tables Turn in Russian Collusion Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The irony of the entire Russian collusion hoax is that accusers who cried the loudest about leaking, collusion, lying, and obstruction are themselves soon very likely to be accused of just those crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that Robert Mueller\u2019s 674-day, $30 million investigation is over and has failed to find the original goal of its mandate\u2014evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government to sway the 2016 election\u2014and now that thousands of once-sealed government documents will likely be released in unredacted form, those who eagerly assumed the role of the hunters may become the hunted, due to their own zealous violation of the nation\u2019s trust and its laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Take Lying<br><\/strong>Former FBI Director James Comey\u2019s testimonies cannot be reconciled with those of his own deputy director Andrew McCabe. He falsely testified that the Steele dossier was not the main basis for obtaining FISA court warrants. On at least 245 occasions, Comey swore under oath that he either did not know, or could not remember, when asked direct questions about his conduct at the FBI. He likely lied when he testified that he did not conclude his assessment of the Clinton illegal email use before he had even interviewed Clinton, an assertion contradicted by his own written report. I guess his credo and&nbsp;<em>modus operandi&nbsp;<\/em>are reflected in the subtitle of his recent autobiography&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Higher-Loyalty-Truth-Lies-Leadership\/dp\/1250192455\"><em>A Higher Loyalty<\/em><\/a>: \u201cTruth, Lies, and Leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/03\/31\/the-tables-turn-in-russian-collusion-hunt\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The irony of the entire Russian collusion hoax is that accusers who cried the loudest about leaking, collusion, lying, and obstruction are themselves soon very likely to be accused of just those crimes. Now that Robert Mueller\u2019s 674-day, $30 million investigation is over and has failed to find the [&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":[1161,1139,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-33v","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11792,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/russian-collusions-greatest-hits\/","url_meta":{"origin":11749,"position":0},"title":"Russian \u2018Collusion\u2019s\u2019 Greatest Hits","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness From late 2015 until April 2019, the media, the Left, and the Obama administrative state hierarchy warned us nonstop that candidate, president-elect, and inaugurated President Trump \u201ccolluded\u201d with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton, to assemble a suspect cabinet, and to rule in treasonous fashion\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Vladimir Putin&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Vladimir Putin","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/vladimir-putin\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10072,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-multi-front-war\/","url_meta":{"origin":11749,"position":1},"title":"A Multi-Front War","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Corner The one and only. by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review The House Intelligence Committee fights, the Susan Rice revelations, the stale Russian collusion story, the Gorsuch battle, the Bannon battles, the end of the filibuster, etc. are all different fronts of the same existential struggle: the unlikely Trump\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Nunes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Nunes","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/nunes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12167,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/target-trump-forever\/","url_meta":{"origin":11749,"position":2},"title":"Target Trump Forever","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Left has shown that the collusion exoneration last year by the heralded Robert Mueller investigation\u2014all 22-months, the \u201cdream team,\u201d and $34 million of it\u2014meant absolutely nothing. Nor did it matter that Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz found no justification of \u201ccollusion\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11620,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-mueller-squirrel-case\/","url_meta":{"origin":11749,"position":3},"title":"The Mueller Squirrel Case","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Special Counsel Robert Mueller recently indicted yet another peripheral character in his Trump probe, Russian attorney Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, for alleged money laundering in a matter quite separate from Trump. Like almost all of Mueller\u2019s indictments of the past 20 months, the charges against\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11847,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/colluders-obstructionists-leakers-and-other-projectionists\/","url_meta":{"origin":11749,"position":4},"title":"Colluders, Obstructionists, Leakers, and Other Projectionists","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Before the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the idea that the Russians or anyone else could warp or tamper with our elections in any serious manner was laughed off by President Obama. \u201cThere is no serious person out there who would suggest that you could\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hillary Clinton&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hillary Clinton","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/hillary-clinton\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10399,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/putins-playthings\/","url_meta":{"origin":11749,"position":5},"title":"Putin\u2019s Playthings","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 Putin will do anything to advance Russia\u2019s interests because his country is in terrible shape. \u00a0 About a year ago, Donald Trump Jr. met with a mysterious Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. 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