At first glance, it may seem contradictory that the nation’s intelligence agencies were telling Congress that President Vladimir Putin of Russia is presumably striving to get President Donald Trump reelected, while also warning Sen. Bernie Sanders of evidence that he is the Russian president’s favorite Democrat.
And if you are trying to sow chaos in an already chaotic, vitriolic election, Putin could hardly hope for better than a faceoff between an incumbent with a history of race-baiting who is shouting “America First” at rallies — while darkly suggesting the coming election is rigged — and a democratic socialist from Vermont advocating a drastic expansion of taxes and government programs like Medicare.
Intelligence is hardly a perfect process, as Americans learned when the nation went to war in Iraq based in part on an estimate that Saddam Hussein was once again in search of a nuclear weapon. “By actively exploiting divisions within American society and having its activities revealed, the Kremlin has ensured that its longer-term goal of having the U.S. remove sanctions and return to a less confrontational relationship so far has been thwarted,” Angela Stent, a former national intelligence officer for Russia and now a professor at Georgetown University, wrote in her book, “Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest.
The more recent public reports emerging from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, and classified reports generated by the CIA and others, suggest that while the Russian objectives have remained the same, the techniques have shifted.
This stuff is as scary as Trump. It appears to seem to me like both Bernie and Bloomberg are pre-positioned to continue the important parts of Trump's agenda, at least regarding Big Money and russian influence. This is intolerable - who's to say I'm wrong?
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