Marc Thiessen

[Commentary] Here is what Attorney General Jeff Sessions should have said when he stepped up to the podium and addressed reporters last week at the Justice Department: “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” Sessions is the victim of the type of McCarthyite character assassination that the left used to condemn. Remember when accusing people without evidence of coordinating with the Kremlin was frowned upon? No longer, apparently.

In fact, what Sessions faced may be worse than McCarthyism. At least McCarthy was right when he claimed that there were Russian spies in the State Department (see Hiss, Alger, among others). On “Meet the Press” this weekend, former Obama director of national intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. declared that the US intelligence community he headed until a few weeks ago had found “no evidence” of any collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russian intelligence. No evidence.

[Thiessen is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush]

[Commentary] Over at the CIA and the National Security Agency headquarters, they must be really enjoying watching Democrats in Philadelphia (PA) squirm over WikiLeaks’s exposure of tens of thousands of internal Democratic Party e-mails. There’s a word for what is happening in the intelligence community: Blowback.

Throughout the entirety of the Obama Administration, nothing was done as WikiLeaks damaged our national security with its serial leaks of highly classified intelligence documents. Now Democrats are paying the price for President Barack Obama’s inaction. Apparently, exposing intelligence sources and methods has not mattered enough for the Obama Administration to do something about WikiLeaks. Maybe saving Hillary Clinton from further embarrassment, or worse, will finally spur them to action.