Kremlin attacks Morgan Freeman and insists everyone should ignore his Russia Video

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31. I can't find anything on The Committee To Investigate Russia. This looks like an AEI project.

investigaterussia.org's Advisory Board:

Max Boot -- Military Historian and Foreign Policy Analyst
James Clapper -- Former Director of National Intelligence
Norman Ornstein -- American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar
Rob Reiner -- Director, Actor, and Activist
Charles Sykes -- Conservative Commentator

I have mixed feelings about this group, no matter what their stated goal is on this issue.

I love Reiner and Freeman, but should they ally themselves with people from the American Enterprise Institute?

The American Enterprise Institute has been around since 1938, yet it takes them nine months to take a position about an intelligence revelation back in January?

I'm not trying to be cynical or discredit them, but honestly, to have people from AEI on this committee? I'm just not feelin' it.

from Wikipedia, on AEI:

...Some AEI staff members are considered to be among the leading architects of the Bush administration's public and foreign policy...

More than twenty staff members served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government's many panels and commissions. Among the prominent former government officials now affiliated with AEI are: Dick Cheney, vice president of the United States under George W. Bush, is a member of AEI's Board of Trustees;[6] John R. Bolton, former Ambassador to the United Nations; Lynne Cheney, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities; Paul Wolfowitz, former Deputy Secretary of Defense. AEI current scholars include Kevin Hassett, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Michael Barone, Nicholas Eberstadt, Jonah Goldberg, Phil Gramm, Glenn Hubbard, Frederick Kagan, Leon Kass, Jon Kyl, Charles Murray, Norman Ornstein, Mark J. Perry, Danielle Pletka, Michael Rubin, Gary Schmitt, Christina Hoff Sommers, Jim Talent, Peter J. Wallison, Michael R. Strain, Bill Lenner, and W. Bradford Wilcox.[7]

Former AEI scholars or affiliates notably include President Gerald Ford, William J. Baroody, Jr., William J. Baroody, Sr., Robert Bork, Arthur F. Burns, Ronald Coase, Dinesh D'Souza, Alfred de Grazia, Christopher DeMuth, Martin Feldstein, Milton Friedman, David Frum,

This kinda looks like a make-work patriotic project.

If this group convinces right wingers that this Internet insurgency is a real problem, I suppose this might win over doubtful Republicans, but I can't believe the AEI members will do anything but find ways to block this situation from Republican consciousness.

Or lull Democrats into thinking that Republicans are their patriotic allies.

I'm probably overreacting.