{"id":11571688,"date":"2025-07-22T12:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/?p=11571688"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:06:05","slug":"armstrong-williams-the-rotten-core-of-a-manufactured-scandal-staff-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2025\/07\/22\/armstrong-williams-the-rotten-core-of-a-manufactured-scandal-staff-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Armstrong Williams: The rotten core of a manufactured scandal | STAFF COMMENTARY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did former President Barack Obama play a role in the fabrication of the Russia collusion narrative? According to former Representative Tulsi Gabbard \u2014 once a rising star within the Democratic Party and now a gadfly for political truth \u2014 the answer is unequivocally yes. More than that, Gabbard suggests<\/a> the Obama administration orchestrated a \u201ctreasonous conspiracy\u201d in 2016, one that weaponized the intelligence community and buried exculpatory findings that contradicted their desired political outcome.<\/p>\n

Let us not pretend this charge is light. A \u201ctreasonous conspiracy\u201d suggests not merely malfeasance but a betrayal of the public trust at the highest levels of government. If these allegations are true \u2014 and the declassified documents and testimonies increasingly suggest they are \u2014 then we are dealing with one of the most corrosive abuses of power in American history. And yet, predictably, the usual suspects in the Democratic Party and their allies in corporate media have denounced these revelations not with evidence, but with noise.<\/p>\n

Men like Sen. Adam Schiff, the architect and chief propagandist of the Russia hoax, have long enjoyed the luxury of consequence-free deception. Schiff assured the nation, repeatedly and confidently, that he had \u201cdirect evidence\u201d of collusion between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin\u2019s government. No such evidence ever materialized. None. Instead, what we received was a years-long investigation \u2014 one that disrupted a presidency, undermined international credibility and cost the American taxpayers tens of millions of dollars \u2014 only to conclude there was no collusion.<\/p>\n

The Mueller report confirmed it. The Durham investigation exposed the rot. And yet, the architects of the lie remain untouched, their reputations defended by a press that long ago abandoned its role as watchdog in favor of partisan priesthood.<\/p>\n

What Gabbard alleges, however, takes this abuse of power a step further. According to her review of intelligence findings \u2014 now echoed by former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe \u2014 the original assessments from our intelligence community clearly stated that Russia\u2019s efforts had no material effect on the outcome of the 2016 election. In other words, while Russia may have engaged in cyber-meddling and online influence operations (as every major power does), it had no decisive impact on voting outcomes. That should have been the headline. Instead, it was buried.<\/p>\n

Why? Because truth was inconvenient to power. Because the narrative of Russian interference served a political end: to delegitimize Trump\u2019s presidency before it even began. What followed was not a sober investigation into foreign threats, but a coordinated disinformation campaign by our own intelligence apparatus at the urging of political elites. It was, as the late Justice Antonin Scalia might argue, an affront not merely to legal process but to the very idea of republican government.<\/p>\n

In Morrison v. Olson, Scalia famously dissented alone, warning against the creation of a fourth branch of government \u2014 unaccountable bureaucracies with the power to influence political outcomes. \u201cA government of laws, and not of men,\u201d he wrote, \u201cmeans that our rulers are bound by the law, just as the governed are.\u201d Yet here we are, in 2024, looking back at a moment when our rulers were the law \u2014 when intelligence agencies were pressured into revising their own conclusions to align with political imperatives.<\/p>\n

This is not a conspiracy theory. This is the documented history of the modern American state. It is what happens when ideology becomes the lens through which evidence is interpreted, and when political expedience outweighs constitutional restraint.<\/p>\n

And now, with Trump’s return to the White House, the fear among Democrats is palpable. Not because of what Trump might do in the future, but because of what he might uncover from the past. This is the nightmare scenario for the left \u2014 not a second Trump term, but a reckoning with the truth. The emails, the memos, the redacted reports \u2014 they may not remain buried for much longer.<\/p>\n

Gabbard is right to call it treasonous. Whether that charge meets the legal standard or not is almost beside the point. What matters is that Americans were lied to by their own government \u2014 systematically, persistently and with great sophistication. As Thomas Sowell has often warned, \u201cIt is hard to imagine a more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump winning the 2024 election is turning out to be the worst nightmare for Democrats, and it hasn’t even been a year yet. Who knows what explosive revelations and corruption Trump and his administration will uncover.<\/p>\n

The question now is whether anyone will be held accountable. Or whether, once again, we will look the other way while the powerful write a different version of history \u2014 one where the truth is not merely inconvenient, but disposable.<\/p>\n

Armstrong Williams (www.armstrongwilliams.com; @arightside) is a political analyst, syndicated columnist and owner of the broadcasting company, Howard Stirk Holdings. He is also part owner of The Baltimore Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Did former President Barack Obama play a role in the fabrication of the Russia collusion narrative? According to former Representative Tulsi Gabbard \u2014 once a rising star within the Democratic Party and now a gadfly for political truth \u2014 the answer is unequivocally yes. More than that, Gabbard suggests<\/a> the Obama administration orchestrated a \u201ctreasonous conspiracy\u201d in 2016, one that weaponized the intelligence community and buried exculpatory findings that contradicted their desired political outcome.<\/p>

Let us not pretend this charge is light. A \u201ctreasonous conspiracy\u201d suggests not merely malfeasance but a betrayal of the public trust at the highest levels of government. If these allegations are true \u2014 and the declassified documents and testimonies increasingly suggest they are \u2014 then we are dealing with one of the most corrosive abuses of power in American history. And yet, predictably, the usual suspects in the Democratic Party and their allies in corporate media have denounced these revelations not with evidence, but with noise.<\/p>

Men like Sen. Adam Schiff, the architect and chief propagandist of the Russia hoax, have long enjoyed the luxury of consequence-free deception. Schiff assured the nation, repeatedly and confidently, that he had \u201cdirect evidence\u201d of collusion between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin\u2019s government. No such evidence ever materialized. None. Instead, what we received was a years-long investigation \u2014 one that disrupted a presidency, undermined international credibility and cost the American taxpayers tens of millions of dollars \u2014 only to conclude there was no collusion.<\/p>

The Mueller report confirmed it. The Durham investigation exposed the rot. And yet, the architects of the lie remain untouched, their reputations defended by a press that long ago abandoned its role as watchdog in favor of partisan priesthood.<\/p>

What Gabbard alleges, however, takes this abuse of power a step further. According to her review of intelligence findings \u2014 now echoed by former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe \u2014 the original assessments from our intelligence community clearly stated that Russia\u2019s efforts had no material effect on the outcome of the 2016 election. In other words, while Russia may have engaged in cyber-meddling and online influence operations (as every major power does), it had no decisive impact on voting outcomes. That should have been the headline. Instead, it was buried.<\/p>

Why? Because truth was inconvenient to power. Because the narrative of Russian interference served a political end: to delegitimize Trump\u2019s presidency before it even began. What followed was not a sober investigation into foreign threats, but a coordinated disinformation campaign by our own intelligence apparatus at the urging of political elites. It was, as the late Justice Antonin Scalia might argue, an affront not merely to legal process but to the very idea of republican government.<\/p>

In Morrison v. Olson, Scalia famously dissented alone, warning against the creation of a fourth branch of government \u2014 unaccountable bureaucracies with the power to influence political outcomes. \u201cA government of laws, and not of men,\u201d he wrote, \u201cmeans that our rulers are bound by the law, just as the governed are.\u201d Yet here we are, in 2024, looking back at a moment when our rulers were the law \u2014 when intelligence agencies were pressured into revising their own conclusions to align with political imperatives.<\/p>

This is not a conspiracy theory. This is the documented history of the modern American state. It is what happens when ideology becomes the lens through which evidence is interpreted, and when political expedience outweighs constitutional restraint.<\/p>

And now, with Trump's return to the White House, the fear among Democrats is palpable. Not because of what Trump might do in the future, but because of what he might uncover from the past. This is the nightmare scenario for the left \u2014 not a second Trump term, but a reckoning with the truth. The emails, the memos, the redacted reports \u2014 they may not remain buried for much longer.<\/p>

Gabbard is right to call it treasonous. Whether that charge meets the legal standard or not is almost beside the point. What matters is that Americans were lied to by their own government \u2014 systematically, persistently and with great sophistication. As Thomas Sowell has often warned, \u201cIt is hard to imagine a more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.\u201d<\/p>

Trump winning the 2024 election is turning out to be the worst nightmare for Democrats, and it hasn't even been a year yet. Who knows what explosive revelations and corruption Trump and his administration will uncover.<\/p>

The question now is whether anyone will be held accountable. Or whether, once again, we will look the other way while the powerful write a different version of history \u2014 one where the truth is not merely inconvenient, but disposable.<\/p>

Armstrong Williams (www.armstrongwilliams.com; @arightside) is a political analyst, syndicated columnist and owner of the broadcasting company, Howard Stirk Holdings. 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