WAS BRENNAN THE RUSSIA LIE RINGLEADER?

   The best defense, the saying goes, is a good offense.
   The key orchestrators of the Big Trump-Russia Collusion Lie seem to have hewed tightly to that tactical advice.
   Over the past two years, one of their biggest “tells” has been their hyper-aggressive and gratuitous attacks on the president. Given that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found no collusion or obstruction of justice, their constant broadsides now look, in retrospect, like calculated pre-emptive strikes to deflect attention and culpability away from themselves.