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I think articles like this are unhelpful and dangerous, and this one is certainly full of inaccuracies. This one is particularly egregious: "WikiLeaks didn’t get the DNC documents from Russia or any other state actor. They got them from a disgruntled pro-Bernie Sanders staffer at the DNC." If anyone wants to review the evidence, it's clear that it was Russian intelligence and the idea that it was a DNC staffer was a cover story. Seymour Hersch backed up this cover story with the same "single-source method" he's been using on Syria though he tried to walk this one back. Now, you're not going to have a livestream of the Russian military carrying out the DNC hack and then you could still claim it was faked. However, the following claim is easily refutable: "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." This is a common right wing talking point. However, one can read the report https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf and it clearly says: "We did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election." The fact the left is repeating right wing talking points that are laughably easy to refute is disturbing to me. -Jason Hicks On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 7:44 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/26/why-the-russia-trump > -collusion-conspiracy-theory-isnt-catching-on/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/opt > ions/marxism/jasonh99%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ 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
