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When a Foreign Adversary Meddled In a Presidential Election

By Byron York
Tuesday, September 11 2018

In the 1990s, a hostile foreign power meddled in our presidential election. There were serious questions about whether one party's candidate — the beneficiary — was complicit in the meddling, or at least looked the other way while it was going on. The candidate fiercely resisted the appointment of a special prosecutor, then known as an independent counsel, to investigate. Finally, amid only moderate media interest and public concern, it all faded away. The country doing the meddling, of course, was China, and the presidential candidate was Bill Clinton, who was already in…

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