hanimmal
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NY Times:
Charges of Ukrainian Meddling? A Russian Operation, U.S. Intelligence Says Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. Republicans have used similar talking points to defend President Trump in impeachment proceedings.
...Mr. Putin began publicly pushing false theories of Ukrainian interference in the early months of 2017 to deflect responsibility from Russia, said Senator Angus King, independent of Maine and a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who declined to answer questions about the briefing.
“These people are pros at this,” said Mr. King, who caucuses with the Democrats. “The Soviet Union used disinformation for 70 years. This is nothing new. Vladimir Putin is a former K.G.B. agent. He is trained in deception. This is his stock and trade and he is doing it well.”
During a news conference in February 2017, Mr. Putin accused the Ukrainian government of supporting Hillary Clinton during the previous American election and funding her candidacy with friendly oligarchs.
It is not clear when American intelligence agencies learned about Moscow’s campaign or when precisely it began. .... New York Times.
When Comey came out in 2016 right before the elections I figured at the time, it sucked but he had to. The way Trump was acting, it seemed likely that if he didn't come out, and Trump lost, it would be used as a way to troll Comey and Clinton about swaying the election for Trump by burying evidence about... emails.
And now they are just going back to the Troll of when caught, have someone ready to blame in hopes that the take the fall, or at least create a shadow of a doubt in court. It makes a lot of sense that they would have been using the foundation of trolling they had done in Ukraine from the start to use in their updated conspiracies. When facts don't matter/can be ignored, they can evolve the story any way they would like to suit their needs.
Charges of Ukrainian Meddling? A Russian Operation, U.S. Intelligence Says Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference. Republicans have used similar talking points to defend President Trump in impeachment proceedings.
...Mr. Putin began publicly pushing false theories of Ukrainian interference in the early months of 2017 to deflect responsibility from Russia, said Senator Angus King, independent of Maine and a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who declined to answer questions about the briefing.
“These people are pros at this,” said Mr. King, who caucuses with the Democrats. “The Soviet Union used disinformation for 70 years. This is nothing new. Vladimir Putin is a former K.G.B. agent. He is trained in deception. This is his stock and trade and he is doing it well.”
During a news conference in February 2017, Mr. Putin accused the Ukrainian government of supporting Hillary Clinton during the previous American election and funding her candidacy with friendly oligarchs.
It is not clear when American intelligence agencies learned about Moscow’s campaign or when precisely it began. .... New York Times.
And now they are just going back to the Troll of when caught, have someone ready to blame in hopes that the take the fall, or at least create a shadow of a doubt in court. It makes a lot of sense that they would have been using the foundation of trolling they had done in Ukraine from the start to use in their updated conspiracies. When facts don't matter/can be ignored, they can evolve the story any way they would like to suit their needs.
