Bernie Sanders' campaign strategist Tad Devine turns up 16 times in evidence against Paul Manafort

[herding cats]

93. To address late your edit.

I'm sorry, I missed it for a long time.

See this reply to you by me after our exchange here. It covers this part, but I'll expound below.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2114158

I can't understand the head in the sand strategy I keep reading. To me, it's like everyone is so busy fighting amongst themselves they can't think clearly anymore.

Maybe I should be more clear here myself. I'm not fighting with anyone. We just need to be on our toes and smarter in 2018 and beyond. We need to think bigger and broader and be better citizens. We need to accept that we could be vulnerable to interference, too. We are, but I'm not not saying Devine is compromised, because we don't know yet. However, he is a weak link per this evidence he was still involved on some level with Manafort after previous claims he saw Ukraine being influenced by Russia and had removed himself after his 2010 work ended. His surrogates who spread this information weren't being honest. That's something to pay attention to now.

We do know Putin did try to exploit Bernie's campaign to weaken Hillary. That was reported back in February of this year (I think?) in the previous round of indictments. We need to be smart now. Then we need to recognize Putin's dealings and stop it before it destroys us all.

Most of all, we need to make sure no one with ties to Russia sinks their hooks in any of our candidates. I believe that will be a final death rattle of a Democratic political career now.

tldr version: we need to not be stupid and hire people like Tad Devine who have ties to helping Putin, and we shouldn't waste our time defending people like him. That's Devine's job and he actually knows the debth, and details. We don't. Oh, and we need to stop being tribal to the point we're dancing around and making excuses for Putin's interferences in our democracy.