The slow drip of revelations about the Russiagate scandal has diminished the significance of the most important truth about it: that it was a Hillary Clinton campaign operation. The campaign paid for the notorious Steele dossier via its law firm, Perkins Coie, and Fusion GPS. Hillary Clinton herself personally approved of the campaign’s decision to disseminate materials related to the Alfa Bank hoax — the false charge that servers at Trump Tower had a secret communications link with a Russian bank — even though the FBI was able to prove quickly that no such secret link existed.

In some ways, it is shocking that a campaign would stoop to such underhanded tricks. But it is all a natural continuation of the Clinton style of politics.