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OK, I changed the Washington Monthly headline a bit for this thread title, but the message is the same. In a nutshell, the Senate Intelligence Committee agrees with all of the US Intelligence Agencies: Putin ordered ACTS OF WAR against the USA.
Those attacks against America helped Trump win in 2016, and the attacks are onging, amping up now with more ACTS OF WAR against America and American democracy. Putin and russia are WAGING WAR against America right frigging now. Meanwhile, I am impelled to note the obvious: the republicans are rolling over, licking their chops, refusing to defend American democracy, and distracting themselves by counting their godforsaken and ill-gotten "tax breaks."
The Report the Senate Doesnt Want You to See
by Martin Longman July 5, 2018
"The committee found that Russia did indeed intervene in the election with the express purpose of hurting Hillary Clintons candidacy or potential presidency and of helping Donald Trump win. It found that the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that was released in January 2017 was based on solid information and defensible analytical assumptions.
"It found that Russia did in fact penetrate multiple state and local electoral boards and they reported that their subsequent investigation had unearthed further evidence of this. It noted the ICAs previous reporting in Russian troll farms and announced the Committees investigation has exposed a far more extensive Russian effort to manipulate social media outlets to sow discord and to interfere in the 2016 election and American society.
"It agreed that all of this was personally ordered by Vladimir Putin..."
Link to the full story:
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/07/05/the-report-the-senate-doesnt-want-you-to-see/
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)however that act of war is carried out, Air, Land, Sea or Cyber.
The report should be made public in every major publication, print or cyber.
malaise
(268,661 posts)They should be screaming about this.
Meanwhile there are ReTHUG Senators calling for sanctions to be lifted. Go figure - treasonous scumbags all.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)infullview
(978 posts)Nothing will happen as a result of this report. Fox news has all the tRump supporters so completely brainwashed they wont acknowledge it because it's "deep state".
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)before Putin and the freaking Evil Empire* in Helsinki, and likely agree to divide and weaken America further, as he has been doing all along.
How can republicans claim to be patriotic AmericaNs, and this week be letting their very own habitually lying casino clown meet in ABSOLUTE UNKNOWABLE SECRET with the murderous man who is ordering russia's WAR ON AMERICA?
What's up with that evil security-breaking shit, republicans.
* per ronald freaking reagan (R)
Horizens
(637 posts)PUTIN
Submariner
(12,497 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)"But now, at the very time that a preliminary report from the Senate Intelligence Committee points to clear and convincing evidence of Russian interference, a delegation of seven members of Trumps party seven senators and one House member have trooped over to Moscow to be lectured to by Russias foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his sidekick former Russian ambassador to the United States and alleged part-time spy Sergei Kislyak.
"What could possibly have prompted seven senators and one congresswoman to abase themselves and, to make matters worse, do it on the Fourth of July?...
"...Are these senators not aware of the fact that under Vladimir Putin Russia has reverted to being an old-fashioned communist dictatorship minus the ideology but with the same paranoia, the same penchant for aggression and the same intolerance of political dissent?..."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/07/08/congressional-republican-trip-russia-lavrov-kislyak-donald-trump-finland-column/764003002/