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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has just held a press conference in which Robert Mueller’s merry band of Clinton partisans announced the indictment of twelve Russian intelligence officers. The indictments obviously refer to the hack of Podesta’s email. They also finger DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 as entities run by the GRU and hint that Wikileaks received the information stolen information. By hint, I mean they don’t name Wikileaks but you had to be in a coma to not know who they are referring to. Key Points from Rosenstein. 1. No evidence that any American who communicated with DCLeaks or Guccifer...

Democracy is the Middle East’s best--and last--chance. Neoconservatives hope that a democratic Iraq and Afghanistan can usher in a new age of Middle Eastern consensual government that will cool down a century-old cauldron of hatred. Realists counter that democratic roots will surely starve in sterile Middle East soil, and it is a waste of time to play Wilsonian games with a people full of anti-American hatred who display only ingratitude for the huge investment of American lives and treasure spent on their freedom. Paleoconservatives prefer to spend our treasure here at home, while liberals oppose anything that is remotely connected...