July 22, 2025
Go away, Tulsi
By J.R. Dunn
The response to Tulsi Gabbard’s weekend airstrike against the deep state’s attempt to walk away from RussiaGate has started to take shape. Leading in this effort is Andrew C. McCarthy, the last figure of any substance at the once august but now decrepit (and diehard NeverTrump) National Review. In “RussiaGate Re-revisited: Gabbard Urges DOJ to Prosecute Obama Official,” McCarthy argues that:
All the material that Gabbard released was already well-known (thanks in large part to one Andrew C. McCarthy).
That there was too Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Therefore, RussiaGate was for real and Obama and goons get a free pass.
(BTW, lemme take a minute to point out that NR has the worst reader interface I’ve encountered in many years. It is jerky and slow to respond. It freezes up constantly and takes several minutes to unlock. Altogether a 2005 reading experience at best. That the onetime premier conservative publication should be offering such an experience is a sad testament as to how low it has fallen. People who complain about AT’s interface, kindly take note.)
There’s a lot wrong with this, but we’ll stick with one aspect: the implication that “Russian interference” was the sum total of RussiaGate. Does McCarthy actually believe this? The fact is that RussiaGate was a contrived “scandal” paid for by Hillary Clinton and based on a totally concocted “dossier” by hired gun Christopher Steele claiming that Donald Trump was in Vladimir Putin’s pocket and working with him directly to subvert the electoral process. That’s what was claimed. That’s what was repeated ad nauseum in the national media – including NR. That’s what led to the FBI stepping in, to congressional hearings, to the Mueller investigation, to at least one impeachment. All of which produced absolutely nothing. The actual Russian attempts to “interfere” amounted to a hundred thousand ponied up for a Facebook page, some stolen DNC emails, and little more -- an altogether pathetic performance by one of the oldest, most competent, and most vicious covert action organizations on the planet. (There is a recent report detailing these efforts released by CIA chief John Ratcliffe that McCarthy makes a lot of play of, but it doesn’t include much more than that. I haven’t read it, but if it did, we’d have certainly heard about it.)
What Tulsi Gabbard has ascertained is that Barack Obama was right in the middle of it, as many have asserted for quite some time. The claim that this is a bagatelle, and doesn’t need looking into, is an eye-roller if there ever was one. After all, Donald Trump was pilloried for eight years (NR included here) on a lot less evidence.
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