MORE ON THE NEW HILLARY MESS – OVERNIGHT:  Even though the mainstream media is trying to avoid the story, it just won't be avoided.  It is leaking out through a number of alternative outlets.  A great analysis from Rich Lowry in the New York Post: 

From the perspective of several years ago, it’s the stuff of an implausible political thriller or a conspiratorial YouTube account. One presidential campaign spies on another as part of a broad effort to get government agencies to pick up the baton and launch a high-stakes investigation of the new president that hampers his first years in office and consumes massive public attention.

Where could such a thing happen? Maybe Brazil or Equatorial Guinea? Well, we now know it happened in these United States.

The latest from special counsel John Durham is that a tech executive connected to the Hillary Clinton campaign mined Internet contacts between Russia and the entities connected to Donald Trump in a search for material to try, as Durham put it in a court filing last week, to “establish ‘an inference’ and ‘narrative’ tying then-candidate Trump to Russia.”

Durham’s probe is a righteous effort to get to the bottom of a matter that deranged American politics for two solid years but has been derided or ignored by the mainstream press, with baleful consequences.

Russiagate did more than its share to undermine the norm that losing campaigns should accept the result of free-and-fair elections and to erode confidence in institutions at the highest levels of our government. One way to minimize the harm is to insist on accountability. The people who were most invested in Russiagate for the longest, though, are least interested in revisiting its origins, let alone in apologizing for their own credulousness or malice.

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign allegedly paid an internet company to “infiltrate” servers in order to link former President Donald Trump to Russia in 2016.

COMMENT:  Read the rest.  It's well worth it.  The quality of our journalism today is scandalous.  The leadership of journalism today is equally bad.  There was a time when we could count on certain senior journalists to set a high standard and maintain a respectable tone.  There are still some like that around, but fewer and fewer each year.

Now the press is challenged, once again, on its credibility – the one quality that must never be compromised.  Pulitzer prizes were won by newspapers for their "investigative reporting" into President Trump's "collusion" with Russia, something that clearly never happened.  Will the Pulitzers be returned?  I doubt it.  And now the press is confronted with serious charges about Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, and many outlets are resisting even reporting the story.  How long do some prominent journalists believe the public will accept this kind of deceit and hypocrisy?  The public is not as stupid as many in journalism think it is.  If polls on press credibility are accurate, the people are making their choices, the right choices.

February 14, 2022