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Why America still needs a complete accounting of the ‘Russiagate’ conspiracy

It’s great that the FBI is probing former CIA Director John Brennan’s role in the Russiagate conspiracy, but the country needs a lot more than criminal investigations and prosecutions to fully air the truth about the 2016 plot to smear Donald Trump as a pawn of Vladimir Putin.

The probe turns on Brennan’s apparent perjury in congressional testimony about one part of his role, namely the fact that in 2016 he ensured that the “Steele dossier” would be part of an Intelligence Community Assessment that claimed to find real Trump-Russia collusion.

The dossier, you’ll recall, was a farrago of fiction (including the “pee tape” lie) about Trump’s alleged connections to Russia; the Clinton campaign paid British ex-spook Christopher Steele to fabricate it as a weapon against Trump during the 2016 campaign. 

And now-declassified docs show that Brennan worked to amplify the lie by getting it into the ICA — which “mysteriously” leaked to the press, putting DC into a........

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