The Atlantic Council: At the center of the Russiagate hysteria
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 12:08amI was reading about the coming Italian election, when I came across this:
I was reading about the coming Italian election, when I came across this:
Jill Stein was interviewed on MSNBC (aka the ScaryPutin! network).
I personally thought she owned the news anchor. Granted, Stein looked defensive, but then she was in the lion's den.
Then I saw the headlines.
The Intercept was founded several years ago as a bastion of “confrontational journalism” by a distinguished group of contributing editors, including Democracy Now! veteran reporter Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald. It sprang directly out of the work of Greenwald, a lawyer, who helped Edward Snowden survive to publish his groundbreaking 2013 and 2014 exposes of NSA domestic wiretapping.
Washington struck back against Russia twice today for things that either aren't crimes, or are things we are responsible for.
Let's start with the biggest one.
You never know where a criminal investigation might end up.
In 1993, Republicans using the laughable claim that Hillary Clinton killed Vince Foster, started a series of investigations that ended with President Clinton being impeached for lying about oral sex.
In 1972, a third-rate break-in at Watergate led to the downfall of a presidency.
Scary Russia failed twice yesterday.
It failed in American elections.
I was watching this video when Jill Stein made the point that it was the Republicans who run the investigative committee, and that gets forgotten in the hype.
So I did a couple searches.
This is scary.
Really?!? Congressional subpoenas for comedians?!?
This is insane.
But not insane in a funny way.
The more the Russian election interference story focuses on Facebook and Twitter, they more ridiculous it gets. https://t.co/BySRm9mpqB pic.twitter.com/1dsScz57g8
— Sean Guillory (@seansrussiablog) October 3, 2017