The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Patrick Lawrence: John Durham & the Burying of History Witness the obliteration of a highly significant passage in U.S.  history. To be deprived in this way of the past — of the facts of our time — is a kind of condemnation. Riot police at the Capitol on Jan. 21, 2017, for Donald Trump’s inauguration.  (Lorie Shaull/Wikimedia Commons) By  Patrick Lawrence T here are certain things I do not quite get since  Special Counsel John Durham’s report  on the epically corrupt conduct of Donald Trump’s enemies during the 2016 election campaigns went to Congress last week. Many things, actually. For all the ground Durham covers in his 306–page report, I don’t get why he left a lot of things undone and unexamined, a lot of names unnamed and a lot of conclusions unconcluded after a four-year investigation into the very unfunny fiasco known as Russiagate.  And then there are a few things I do get. Chief among these is that, with the already-evident burying of the Durham Report, we now witness

  The Most Powerful Demolition of Russiagate Yet Patrick Lawrence celebrates Jacob Seigel’s essay in  Tablet  magazine on the “hoax of the century.”  (Gerd Altmann auf Pixabay) By  Patrick Lawrence The Scrum S ometime in the mid–Russiagate years, when it became clear that America was on a swoon back into the collective neuroses of the 1950s, I began to think we would have to wait for future historians to retrieve the truth buried alive in the cesspit of lies and cynical propaganda operations the deep state — and I am fine with this term — inflicted upon us in response to Donald Trump’s rise in national politics. There seemed no sorting out the godawful mess amid the incessant waves of mis– and disinformation to which our corporate media subjected us.    The task, if you were in the scribbling trade, was to write truthfully for readers, of course, but also to contribute, however modestly, to a record that tore a hole in mainstream media’s façade so that later historians looking back on