Historians have already concluded that Trump in his first term was among the three or four worst Presidents. I suspect so far he's not getting better marks this time.
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Nyet, tovarish. Robert Mueller is a Vietnam war hero and lifelong Republican. I don't trust the fucking Russians or their lackies.They were made up though. Plenty of evidence for this. A good article on the subject by someone who's been following the story for quite some time now, Aaron Mate, published this past Tuesday on his substack:
US intel hid high-level doubts about "Russian interference", docs reveal
The NSA and FBI expressed "low confidence" that Russia hacked and leaked DNC emails to help Trump, documents show. US intelligence leaders concealed this dissent and told a different story.
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That response is so dated- aside from the fact that I'm not communist, neither is Russia at this point.Nyet, tovarish.They were made up though. Plenty of evidence for this. A good article on the subject by someone who's been following the story for quite some time now, Aaron Mate, published this past Tuesday on his substack:
US intel hid high-level doubts about "Russian interference", docs reveal
The NSA and FBI expressed "low confidence" that Russia hacked and leaked DNC emails to help Trump, documents show. US intelligence leaders concealed this dissent and told a different story.
substack.com
I took a look online for a legal meaning of the word traverse, I found this:
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To deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a lawsuit.
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Source:
Even using that definition of the term, I'm not sure what that would have to do with what I was discussing.
You're free to believe you don't constantly defend Mother Russia from the big, bad United States.That response is so dated- aside from the fact that I'm not communist, neither is Russia at this point.
I took a look at his Wikipedia page. I can certainly agree that he showed bravery during his time in Vietnam. Doesn't change the fact that I believe the U.S. should never have been there to begin with. The fact that he's a lifelong Republican in and of itself means little. There are good and bad republicans, just like there are good and bad democrats.
No need to get emotional about it. In any case, the article I linked to wasn't from a Russian news outlet, but to a well respected American journalist. His Wikipedia page can be seen here:
Aaron Maté - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Here's a bit from his Wikipedia page:
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Aaron Maté (/ˈmɑːteɪ/ MAH-tay; born 13 March 1979) is a Canadian writer and journalist. He hosts the show Pushback with Aaron Maté on The Grayzone and, as of January 2022, he fills in as a host on the Useful Idiots podcast. Maté has worked as a reporter and producer for Democracy Now!, Vice, The Real News Network, and Al Jazeera, and has contributed to The Nation.
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He challenged allegations of collusion between the Russian government and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, and the extent to which Russian interference influenced the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election, winning an Izzy Award for this work.
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I suspect that all of the above still won't get you to click on Aaron Mate's article, though, so I'll quote a bit of it that I think is pretty important:
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“Low Confidence” in Core Allegation
Until now, the purported U.S. intelligence consensus on Russian meddling has been conveyed to the public in three seminal reports.
The first was a January 2017 intelligence community assessment (ICA) released in the final days of the Obama administration under the direction of Brennan and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. The ICA accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering an “influence campaign” to “denigrate” Democratic candidate Clinton and “help” Trump win the 2016 election. Some of this effort involved propaganda on Russian media outlets and messaging on social media.
The larger component hinged on the allegation that the GRU, Russia’s main intelligence agency, stole emails and documents from the Democratic Party and released that material principally via two online entities, DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0, as well as the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has long denied that Russia or any other state actor was his source. Nevertheless, the January 2017 ICA stated that U.S. intelligence had “high confidence” that Russia engineered the hack.
The Mueller report, issued more than two years later, advanced the ICA’s claims with even more confidence and specificity. A bipartisan Senate intelligence review, released in August 2020, endorsed the ICA and Mueller reports and was widely treated as a vindication of the conduct of the intelligence officials behind them.
The documents newly declassified by Gabbard show that the ICA, Mueller, and Senate reports all excluded the intelligence community’s own secretly identified doubts and evidentiary gaps on the core allegation of Russian meddling.
In a previously unpublished Intelligence Community Assessment circulated within the government on Sept. 12, 2016 (hereafter “September ICA”), the FBI and NSA expressed “low confidence” that Russia was behind the hack and release of Democratic Party emails. U.S. intelligence agencies, the report explained, “lack sufficient technical details” to link the stolen Democratic Party material released by WikiLeaks and other sources “to Russian state-sponsored actors.”
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Full article:
US intel hid high-level doubts about "Russian interference", docs reveal
The NSA and FBI expressed "low confidence" that Russia hacked and leaked DNC emails to help Trump, documents show. US intelligence leaders concealed this dissent and told a different story.
Give it a rest.I took a look online for a legal meaning of the word traverse, I found this:
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To deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a lawsuit.
**
Source:
Even using that definition of the term, I'm not sure what that would have to do with what I was discussing.
You're free to believe you don't constantly defend Mother Russia from the big, bad United States.That response is so dated- aside from the fact that I'm not communist, neither is Russia at this point.
I took a look at his Wikipedia page. I can certainly agree that he showed bravery during his time in Vietnam. Doesn't change the fact that I believe the U.S. should never have been there to begin with. The fact that he's a lifelong Republican in and of itself means little. There are good and bad republicans, just like there are good and bad democrats.
No need to get emotional about it. In any case, the article I linked to wasn't from a Russian news outlet, but to a well respected American journalist. His Wikipedia page can be seen here:
Aaron Maté - Wikipedia
Here's a bit from his Wikipedia page:
**
Aaron Maté (/ˈmɑːteɪ/ MAH-tay; born 13 March 1979) is a Canadian writer and journalist. He hosts the show Pushback with Aaron Maté on The Grayzone and, as of January 2022, he fills in as a host on the Useful Idiots podcast. Maté has worked as a reporter and producer for Democracy Now!, Vice, The Real News Network, and Al Jazeera, and has contributed to The Nation.
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He challenged allegations of collusion between the Russian government and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, and the extent to which Russian interference influenced the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election, winning an Izzy Award for this work.
**
I suspect that all of the above still won't get you to click on Aaron Mate's article, though, so I'll quote a bit of it that I think is pretty important:
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“Low Confidence” in Core Allegation
Until now, the purported U.S. intelligence consensus on Russian meddling has been conveyed to the public in three seminal reports.
The first was a January 2017 intelligence community assessment (ICA) released in the final days of the Obama administration under the direction of Brennan and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. The ICA accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering an “influence campaign” to “denigrate” Democratic candidate Clinton and “help” Trump win the 2016 election. Some of this effort involved propaganda on Russian media outlets and messaging on social media.
The larger component hinged on the allegation that the GRU, Russia’s main intelligence agency, stole emails and documents from the Democratic Party and released that material principally via two online entities, DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0, as well as the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has long denied that Russia or any other state actor was his source. Nevertheless, the January 2017 ICA stated that U.S. intelligence had “high confidence” that Russia engineered the hack.
The Mueller report, issued more than two years later, advanced the ICA’s claims with even more confidence and specificity. A bipartisan Senate intelligence review, released in August 2020, endorsed the ICA and Mueller reports and was widely treated as a vindication of the conduct of the intelligence officials behind them.
The documents newly declassified by Gabbard show that the ICA, Mueller, and Senate reports all excluded the intelligence community’s own secretly identified doubts and evidentiary gaps on the core allegation of Russian meddling.
In a previously unpublished Intelligence Community Assessment circulated within the government on Sept. 12, 2016 (hereafter “September ICA”), the FBI and NSA expressed “low confidence” that Russia was behind the hack and release of Democratic Party emails. U.S. intelligence agencies, the report explained, “lack sufficient technical details” to link the stolen Democratic Party material released by WikiLeaks and other sources “to Russian state-sponsored actors.”
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Full article:
US intel hid high-level doubts about "Russian interference", docs reveal
The NSA and FBI expressed "low confidence" that Russia hacked and leaked DNC emails to help Trump, documents show. US intelligence leaders concealed this dissent and told a different story.
