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Right, as I said in the other thread, that is a right wing talking point and a blatant falsehood. It's yet another example of how Counterpunch has no editorial or political standards, that it is acting without a sense of responsibility. Maybe it's gotten less bad on Syria but that general problem remains (and it's still publishing nonsense that calls the Ukrainian government "fascist" which can only be done based on the same political methods the Assadists use to dismiss the Syrian revolution). The report https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf clearly says: "We did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election." -Jason Hicks On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 10:24 PM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/26/why-the-russia- > trump-collusion-conspiracy-theory-isnt-catching-on/ < > https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/26/why-the-russia- > trump-collusion-conspiracy-theory-isnt-catching-on/>"Anyway, the > intelligence community — you know, the friendly folks at the CIA, FBI and > NSA whom Democrats worship the way Republicans revered firefighters after > 9/11 — says whatever Russian hacking occurred did not affect the outcome of > the election.” > > I frankly doubt that the “intelligence community” said any such thing. > How could they know how effective the Russian intervention was? > Think of another historical example. The Italian election of 1948. There > is no dispute that’d the CIA intervened against the Communist Party. But > could any of us prove that the intervention was effective? How could we > prove that unless hundreds of thousands of voters kept diaries and we had > access to those diaries? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Italy < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Italy> > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
