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The special counsel’s report provides the summary Americans need to understand the breadth of the malfeasance.. Special Counsel John Durham released his long-awaited report on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation Monday. While the 306-page report includes some new details of the Russia-collusion hoax, the Clinton campaign’s role in the plot, and the FBI and intelligence agencies’ misconduct, much of the content merely rehashes what conservative media have reported for the last five years. Still, our country needed a public record of the events that represent one of the biggest political scandals in American history, and on that front Durham delivered. FBI’s...

The country never had a comprehensive anti-terror operation until I came to office,” former president Bill Clinton told Fox News on Sunday. “I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy.” “We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda,” says Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a new interview with the New York Post. “The notion somehow for eight months the Bush administration sat there and didn’t [fight al Qaeda] is just flatly false.” Well, which is it? The argument over whether, in January 2001, the Clinton administration left the incoming Bush administration a blueprint to destroy Osama bin Laden...

Jan. 19, 2005 0:31 | Updated Jan. 19, 2005 18:10 Poll: Most Palestinians, Israelis back Clinton plan By LAMIA LAHOUDFor the first time, a majority of Palestinians and Israelis support a final-status settlement based on former US president Bill Clinton's plan, acceding to a survey by the Palestinian Center for Survey Research in Ramallah and the Truman Foundation. Clinton proposed a Palestinian state on most of the land captured in 1967, giving up the right of return and dividing Jerusalem along demographic lines. Sixty three percent of Palestinians support an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip,...

Ariel Sharon, the prime minister of Israel, has broken with decades of his own history and declared an intent to withdraw all Israeli habitations from Gaza, plus some from the West Bank. Doing so raises a basic question: Just how important are these “settlements” in the grand scheme of Palestinian-Israeli relations? (I use quotation marks around settlements because the dictionary defines this word as “a small community” or an establishment of people “in a new region.” This inaccurately describes the Jewish habitations in question, many of which boast tens of thousands of residents in place over several decades.) Some analysts...