by William McGurn
Did our intel leaders have any evidence when they pushed the Russia collusion line?
FBI acting director Andrew McCabe in Washington, June 7, 2017.
Photo:
Alex Brandon/Associated Press
Now that special counsel Robert Mueller has found that no one
in the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election,
Democrats are busy moving the goal posts. But this is a distraction from
the real reckoning that needs to come.
The one we need is for all the intelligence officials—including former
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Central
Intelligence Agency chief John Brennan, and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation’s former Director James Comey and former Deputy Director
Andrew McCabe—who pushed the Russia conspiracy theory. The special
counsel has just made clear they did so with no real evidence.