With the mainstream media’s continuing manic obsession with the fake news “Russia-gate” story, the latest frenzied chapter concerns President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. meeting with “a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer” who was seeking to provide damaging information on Hillary Clinton and her 2016 presidential campaign. This is what is described as “opposition research” and is standard operating procedure in political campaigns going back to the days of John Adams versus Thomas Jefferson. When I worked on the 1984 Libertarian Party presidential campaign national staff, I coordinated research on our opposition candidates’ connections to political extremists. I had three major opposition … Continue reading “Opposition Research”