I haven’t seen a shred of publicly available evidence tying this hack to Russia. Only opinions (Pompeo, Barr, anonymous sources in media pieces). The implication being that facts do exist to support this, but they are just too sensitive to make public. So trust us and the conclusions we have drawn. This is horseshit. The conclusion (Russ…
I haven’t seen a shred of publicly available evidence tying this hack to Russia. Only opinions (Pompeo, Barr, anonymous sources in media pieces). The implication being that facts do exist to support this, but they are just too sensitive to make public. So trust us and the conclusions we have drawn. This is horseshit. The conclusion (Russia did this!) and accompanying rhetoric (act of war!) is already out of the bag and the situation is already escalated. In my view, any “sources and methods” privilege claimed by the IC is outweighed by the public’s right to know before we are dragged into another war. We all know who pays the price in an armed conflict. In addition to the damage done to the invade-ee, the burden for the US is carried by young 20-somethings who come home in boxes, missing limbs, etc. These are the folks politicians like to call America’s finest, but really don’t give a shit about. No one with the last name Pompeo, Barr, Durbin, Trump, Biden, etc etc will pay any price if we are bungled into an armed conflict.
The tragi-comical figure in this is Biden. Riding an election win based far more on a rejection of his opponent than on whatever fragile coalition he has, this go-along-to-get-along career DC creature is being backed into a corner. He is being pressured to “do something” when he takes office in response to an “act of war”.
My suspicion on this, and I hope I’m right, is that all of this “Russiagate” nonsense was a balm used to soothe fractured minds following the stunning 2016 election result. It has simply lingered on and will hopefully die with Trump leaving office. That any threat from Russia, while real, is relatively minimal to the world’s economic and military superpower. That people like Durbin and his loose rhetoric are not taken seriously. That once Biden is inaugurated, the temperature will go down. He will impose some meaningless sanctions, the Dem party and their media allies will drop Russia from their vocabulary, and that will be that. It will expose the fraud of the Russian menace, but at least it will keep us out of another war.
I haven’t seen a shred of publicly available evidence tying this hack to Russia. Only opinions (Pompeo, Barr, anonymous sources in media pieces). The implication being that facts do exist to support this, but they are just too sensitive to make public. So trust us and the conclusions we have drawn. This is horseshit. The conclusion (Russia did this!) and accompanying rhetoric (act of war!) is already out of the bag and the situation is already escalated. In my view, any “sources and methods” privilege claimed by the IC is outweighed by the public’s right to know before we are dragged into another war. We all know who pays the price in an armed conflict. In addition to the damage done to the invade-ee, the burden for the US is carried by young 20-somethings who come home in boxes, missing limbs, etc. These are the folks politicians like to call America’s finest, but really don’t give a shit about. No one with the last name Pompeo, Barr, Durbin, Trump, Biden, etc etc will pay any price if we are bungled into an armed conflict.
The tragi-comical figure in this is Biden. Riding an election win based far more on a rejection of his opponent than on whatever fragile coalition he has, this go-along-to-get-along career DC creature is being backed into a corner. He is being pressured to “do something” when he takes office in response to an “act of war”.
My suspicion on this, and I hope I’m right, is that all of this “Russiagate” nonsense was a balm used to soothe fractured minds following the stunning 2016 election result. It has simply lingered on and will hopefully die with Trump leaving office. That any threat from Russia, while real, is relatively minimal to the world’s economic and military superpower. That people like Durbin and his loose rhetoric are not taken seriously. That once Biden is inaugurated, the temperature will go down. He will impose some meaningless sanctions, the Dem party and their media allies will drop Russia from their vocabulary, and that will be that. It will expose the fraud of the Russian menace, but at least it will keep us out of another war.