No. of Recommendations: 3
In light of that, look at Durham’s two questions: “(i) whether there was in fact a plan by the Clinton campaign to tie Trump to Russia in order to ‘stir up a scandal’ in advance of the 2016 presidential election, and (ii) if such a plan existed, whether an aspect or component of that plan was to intentionally provide knowingly false and/or misleading information to the FBI or other agencies in furtherance of such a plan.”
The answer to (i) is yes, there was a plan. The answer to (ii)? Well, there is no question that the Clinton campaign provided false and/or misleading information to the FBI. Whether it did so knowing the information was false and/or misleading is still a point of argument, at least among Democrats. In light of the entirety of what is now known, it seems extremely hard to believe the campaign did not know its feeds to the FBI were false and/or misleading.
Still, in the most basic sense, we know what Hillary Clinton did. It wasn’t just opposition research. She and her campaign team accused Trump of collusion and then fed false and/or misleading information relating to that accusation to the FBI, after which it became the subject of alarmist reporting in the press. In the short run, it didn’t work — Clinton lost and Trump won. But in the long run, it upended American politics for years, and no one is the better for it.
And perhaps now...Hillary! answers for it.
Along with a lot of folks at the FBI.
