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Evidence suggests our intelligence agencies launched the Russia-collusion hoax months before the Clinton campaign joined in full force.Tuesday’s explosive news — that long before the FBI launched Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016, the U.S. intelligence community had asked foreign intel agencies to surveil 26 people connected to Donald Trump — raises the question of whether our intelligence community colluded with the Clinton campaign in these efforts. After all, it was then-Biden campaign adviser and now-Secretary of State Antony Blinken who “set in motion the events that led to” 51 former intel officials issuing the public statement that falsely framed...

Remarks such as "No man is an island — and that includes the United States" might be expected from the insular and jealous parochialists of Europe or as ululations from the "Arab street." But the author of this one is a Conservative former British foreign and defense secretary: Sir Malcolm Rifkind. During an April 22 speech delivered to a distinguished audience at the Royal United Service Institute in London, Sir Malcolm waded through many of the current European postures, especially concerning Iraq, that might wreck President George W. Bush's current military coalition. As the war on terrorism enters its...