Greenwald and Taibbi have shown their true stripes. They are not our allies and never have been --

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25. She didn't say Russia caused it. She said Russia exploited that event for its own purposes.

And they did. And we KNOW that after the initial spontaneous days of the protest, many outsiders came to join in. Those outsiders certainly could have included some with connections to Russia.

From 2014:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/russia-is-trolling-the-us-over-ferguson-yet-again?utm_term=.lp6rBVmGm#.svgJRepmp

KIEV, Ukraine — Russian media has been unable to contain its glee at the news that fresh riots have broken out in Ferguson: America is gripped in the throes of a violent race war as retribution for the bloody revolution it had plotted against Moscow’s allies in Ukraine, according to the pro-Kremlin press.

“The conflict in Ferguson isn’t a one-time event, but something profound,” Russian state television anchor Alexander Khristenko said on the Rossiya channel. “Race relations, social inequality, a black ghetto — the fragile world that hardly held itself together through a belief in just a little bit of fairness, it seems, has finally collapsed.”

Russian media, which usually prioritize coverage of Vladimir Putin’s every move and the Ukraine crisis ahead of more distant international events, have run wall-to-wall bulletins on the violence in Ferguson since it began in August. Coverage of the fresh rioting led every pro-Kremlin newscast on Tuesday. Russia Today, the Kremlin’s English-language propaganda channel, broadcast live from the scene.

For the Kremlin, the upheaval in the U.S. is a chance to score points against the White House for its support of the pro-Western Maidan protests that began in Ukraine a year ago and precipitated the biggest crisis in East-West relations since the Cold War. Sergei Naryshkin, speaker of Russia’s parliament and a close Russian ally, hinted on Tuesday that the rioting was America’s just desserts for “plunging the world into the chaos of its one-sided diktat,” the Itar-TASS news agency reported. Vladimir Vasiliev, a political scientist interviewed as an expert on the U.S. by the pro-Kremlin TV channel LifeNews, went one further. “It’s the combination of a number of factors: the Americans have overdone it with Ukraine recently, and Maidan has come to the U.S.,” he said. RIA Novosti, Russia’s Kremlin’s state newswire, referred to the Missouri National Guard with the same abbreviation it uses for Ukraine’s national guard, which has become a favorite Kremlin bugbear for the prominent far-right fighters in its ranks.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/19/ferguson-outsiders-protesters-riots-peaceful-unrest

For more than a week the people of Ferguson welcomed the outside activists who flocked here to show solidarity after police killed an unarmed teenager. By day 11, some residents were having second thoughts.

The intensified mayhem of recent nights, apparently initiated by a small, organised group of agitators, has raised a question mark over the strangers who join the nightly demonstrations.

“Who the hell are you people?” one woman shouted early on Tuesday morning as youths surged towards a phalanx of police, hurling insults, water bottles and, later, molotov cocktails.

With the national guard deployed to quell civil unrest in the US for the first time in over a decade, amid a night of gunshots, teargas, chaos and 31 arrests, it was an urgent question.