Russiagate should stain Obama's legacy forever

For years, Democrats touted former President Barack Obama’s administration as the most scandal-free in modern history. Given the controversies surrounding Operation Fast and Furious, the Benghazi attack, the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, and the National Security Agency’s surveillance of American citizens and foreign leaders on his watch, it was a remarkable claim for anyone to make.

But it was the Obama administration’s determined efforts to weaponize the U.S. intelligence agencies against then-candidate Donald Trump that marked the most alarming abuse of all.