Glenn Harlan Reynolds, USA Today: Russians! Under my bed!: Glenn Reynolds
John Podesta fell for a phishing scam. Let's not start another Cold War over that.
If there’s any single statement that President Obama probably wishes he could undo, it was his mockery of Mitt Romney during the 2012 presidential debates. Referring to Romney’s characterization of Russia as America’s greatest geopolitical foe, Obama said the 1980s are calling and they want their foreign policy back.
Now of course, Democrats are up in arms about the Russians, sounding like madcap John Birchers from the 1960s. As Twitter wag IowaHawk noted, they didn’t get upset when Russia invaded Crimea; they didn’t throw down when Russia shot down a civilian airliner over Ukraine; but stealing John Podesta’s password via a phishing scam is apparently grounds for restarting the Cold War. Well, only one of these crimes constitutes a threat to Democrats’ political power.
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Update #1: WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived (Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept)
Update #2: Something About This Russia Story Stinks (Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone)
Update #3: The Russian Election Hacking Case Is Getting Murkier (Investors Business Daily editorial)
WNU Editor: I always find it interesting when you have libertarians like Glenn Reynolds, conservative web sites like the Investors Business Daily, and liberal sites like the Intercept and Rolling Stone .... all sharing the same opinion which is .... this Russian hacking story and the reaction to it does not add up.
4 comments:
Gotta love alt history,
The "New Cold War" started when Bush II used the US presence in the 'stans to try to curry influence and block the New Silk Road.
It heated up before Sochi, got almost hot in the Georgian Ossetian War of 2006, bac when Obama was still just a "community organizer".
US Sanctions against Russia date back to the mid 1990's.
BTW, WNU Editor,
F-35C news for you,
http://www.businessinsider.com/expensive-f35-snag-years-to-fix-2017-1
"Redesigns to the plane, as well as to carriers, may be necessary to fully address the problem.
A Pentagon deficiency report in 2015 stated that extreme movements in the cockpit during launch risked pilot health."
The one who smelt it dealt it. Hrc was deep in the pocket of Russians long ago. Maybe they provided the server too.
The one who smelt it dealt it. Hrc was deep in the pocket of Russians long ago. Maybe they provided the server too.
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