Russiagate began sometime prior to June 2016, not after the presidential election in November, as is often said, as an anti-Trump political project (exactly why, how, and by whom remain unclear, and herein lies the real significance of the largely bogus “dossier” and the still murky role of top US intel officials in the creation of that document).

Bob Woodward said readers were ‘cheated’ by media’s Russiagate coverage

Last week Matt Taibbi, with access to Twitter’s internal papers, debunked the fake Hamilton 68 propaganda dashboard that was used to create many stories about alleged Russian disinformation. I had done similar five years earlier but had no access to the original data. There were enough secondary indications to conclude that the dashboard was a sham. Still, have the case made with primary data is a valuable addition.

NY Times, Washington Post, CNN spearheaded much of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative

Igor Danchenko’s confession appears to reveal the bureau’s true intentions

Hillary Clinton was involved in the Russiagate hoax from beginning to end.

Two years ago last Saturday (May 7, 2020) Adam Schiff (D, California), Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, was forced to perform what Nixon co-conspirator John Ehrlichman famously called a “modified limited hangout.”

Democracy perishes when its institutions fall prey to false information and ignore objective standards of truth. It is time to revive them.

There is very likely much more to the story of Trump and Russia than what has so far become public. A well-funded investigation to look into this further would be justified—much more so than an investigation, which has come up dry, into supposed witch-hunting by the U.S. bureaucracy.