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Liberals seeking to blame Hillary Clinton’s election loss on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 never answer just why Vladimir Putin would want her to lose. One would’ve thought he would want her to win, hoping she, as President, would give them even more access to U.S. uranium supplies. Still they insist that people like former national Security Adviser Mike Flynn and current Attorney General Jeff Sessions conspired with Russian officials to influence November’s results. In either case, it was not illegal for them to meet with the Russian Ambassador and perfectly sensible for them to do so. Just ask...

Sen. Edward “Ted” Kennedy had “selfish political and ideological motives” when he made secret overtures to the Soviet Union’s spy agency during the Cold War to thwart then-President Ronald Reagan’s re-election, a Reagan biographer said in an interview with The Daily Signal. When they came to light years later, Kennedy’s secret contacts with the Russians through their KGB spy agency in the early 1980s didn’t cause nearly the tizzy that Russia’s alleged interference with this year’s election has for President-elect Donald Trump among liberal activists and reporters. Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom Trump has said he hopes to “get...

Let's establish a couple of things first. There is no proof that Jeff Sessions lied under oath. He was asked a particularly contorted question designed to ensnare him no matter what he answered. A simple straight forward question would have gotten a straight forward answer. Franken: "CNN just published a story alleging that the intelligence community provided documents to the president-elect last week that included information that quote, ‘Russian operatives claimed to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump.’ These documents also allegedly say quote, ‘There was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump's surrogates...