{"id":4405,"date":"2018-07-23T04:42:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T04:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/23\/dems-and-spooks-why-suddenly-so-ferociously-anti-putin\/"},"modified":"2018-07-23T04:42:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T04:42:51","slug":"dems-and-spooks-why-suddenly-so-ferociously-anti-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/23\/dems-and-spooks-why-suddenly-so-ferociously-anti-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems and Spooks: Why Suddenly So Ferociously Anti-Putin?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Ledeen provides historical perspective and poses a good question<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s a hard question to answer, because we do not know if it is based on new intelligence, or if it is primarily motivated by politics. So far as we know, there is considerable information tying Democrats to the Russians, and relatively less showing Russian links to Republicans, including the Trump crowd. We can document substantial Russian and Russia-linked involvement with the Clinton Foundation, some of it directly linked to U.S. policy decisions such as the one giving Russia effective control over the U.S. company Uranium One. We know that Bill Clinton received a huge payday for a speech in Moscow, orders of magnitude greater than what General Flynn was paid. Yet there is virtually unanimous Democratic condemnation of Trump\u2019s failure to denounce Russian \u201cmeddling\u201d in our politics, claiming it was in support for Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

It seems to me that the Democrats are accusing Trump of doing what they actually did.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

 For the clueless: 'spooks' is not a racist dog whistle, nor does it have anything to do with Halloween.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Ledeen provides historical perspective and poses a good question.  It\u2019s a hard question to answer, because we do not know if it is based on new intelligence, or if it is primarily motivated by politics. So far as we know, there is considerable information tying Democrats to the Russians, and relatively less showing Russian … Continue reading “Dems and Spooks: Why Suddenly So Ferociously Anti-Putin?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}