Robert Mueller is supposed to be investigating Russian hackers who
were spying on political emails during last year's election, but
reporters with the Associated Press are doing a better job than he
is.
The AP
reported last week that the Russian hacking group Fancy Bear
was spying on more than just political emails and FBI .leaders
knew it. The FBI failed to warn the vast majority of hackers'
targets that the Russians were reading their emails. The FBI
allowed the Russians to spy on the emails
of "the former head of cybersecurity for the U.S. Air
Force. An ex-director at the National Security Council. A former
head of the Defense Intelligence Agency." Targets included a manager
working on the stealth fighter program.
Meanwhile Mueller was getting Michael Flynn to admit he lied to the
FBI about a legitimate meeting with the Russian
ambassador that occurred after the election. Having
aides of the President-elect meet with foreign diplomats can prepare
their government for any change in policy and help the incoming
president avoid actions that might adversely affect relations
between the countries.
The situation reminds me of an old Warner Brothers cartoon about a
family of buzzards. The mother sends her children out to bring
back some fresh meat. One brings back a
horse. Another brings a cow. The younger one is
shown flying along holding a bee in its talons and proudly singing:
"'I'm bringing home a baby bumble bee. Won't my mommy be
so proud of me." Last week the AP brought back a whale and
Robert Mueller brought back a baby bumble bee,
Mueller has spent millions on what would be called a dry hole in
Texas oil country. The Associated Press has
brought in a gusher. The AP has discovered what may be
the greatest act of espionage involving federal employees since the
theft of atomic bomb secrets in
the forties.
President Donald Trump should either replace Mueller's team with
people who have never worked for the Justice Department or drop the
investigation
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Friday, October 13, 2017
Edward R. Murrow Would Be Ashamed of the People at CBS.
Edward R.
Murrow used his position as a journalist to expose the
anti-communist witch
hunt in the 50's.
I remember seeing some of the television coverage of the Army-McCarthy hearings. I was too young to fully understand what was going on, but I recognized that Murrow thought something was wrong.
If he were alive today, I'm sure he would recognize that the current anti-Russian crusade makes less sense than Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist crusade in the 50's.
There was a Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union in the 50's. There is no good reason for the United States and Russia to be enemies today.
The question Joe McCarthy asked in the 50's was: "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party?" The question today is: "have you ever talked to a Russian?"
Supporters of the Russian meddling witch hunt claim that Russian hackers were spying on the Democratic Party's emails. The fact is that the Russian government has arrested four of those hackers [ including the deputy head of the FSB security agency’s Centre for Information Security, Col. Sergei Mikhailov and his deputy Maj. Dmitry Dokuchayev]. and charged them with working for the CIA.
Thus any inquisition on this issue should begin with Obama administration officials and seek answers to the following questions: "What did President Obama know? When did he know it? and What did he do about it?"
The witch hunters also charge the Russians with "planting fake news". The traditional term is "propaganda" and governments have been doing it for generations. Great Britain started doing it to us during WWI. After the 9/11 attack the British convinced our government that Iraq's WMD program was more extensive than it was.
Prior to the 2004 election, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam [DRV] released a story that insured that Gov. Bob Kerrey would not run against Sen John Kerry [whom the DRV was supporting] for the Democratic presidential nomination. The DRV had previously provided "fake news" to try to influence voters in the 1968 and 1972 elections.
It's increasingly obvious that it's the British, rather than the Russians, who are meddling in American politics. The British are once again using "fake intelligence" to influence American politics.
After the 9/11 attack the British used fake intelligence about WMD in Iraq to get President George W. Bush to help them invade Iraq. The British treated rumors about WMD as if they were proven facts.
Now they are using fake intelligence to undermine President Donald Trump. Patrick Cockburn in the "London Independent" says the charges about Trump's alleged association with the Russians are based on information that is at least as unreliable as the claims about Iraq's WMD.
I remember seeing some of the television coverage of the Army-McCarthy hearings. I was too young to fully understand what was going on, but I recognized that Murrow thought something was wrong.
If he were alive today, I'm sure he would recognize that the current anti-Russian crusade makes less sense than Sen. Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist crusade in the 50's.
There was a Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union in the 50's. There is no good reason for the United States and Russia to be enemies today.
The question Joe McCarthy asked in the 50's was: "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party?" The question today is: "have you ever talked to a Russian?"
Supporters of the Russian meddling witch hunt claim that Russian hackers were spying on the Democratic Party's emails. The fact is that the Russian government has arrested four of those hackers [ including the deputy head of the FSB security agency’s Centre for Information Security, Col. Sergei Mikhailov and his deputy Maj. Dmitry Dokuchayev]. and charged them with working for the CIA.
Thus any inquisition on this issue should begin with Obama administration officials and seek answers to the following questions: "What did President Obama know? When did he know it? and What did he do about it?"
The witch hunters also charge the Russians with "planting fake news". The traditional term is "propaganda" and governments have been doing it for generations. Great Britain started doing it to us during WWI. After the 9/11 attack the British convinced our government that Iraq's WMD program was more extensive than it was.
Prior to the 2004 election, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam [DRV] released a story that insured that Gov. Bob Kerrey would not run against Sen John Kerry [whom the DRV was supporting] for the Democratic presidential nomination. The DRV had previously provided "fake news" to try to influence voters in the 1968 and 1972 elections.
It's increasingly obvious that it's the British, rather than the Russians, who are meddling in American politics. The British are once again using "fake intelligence" to influence American politics.
After the 9/11 attack the British used fake intelligence about WMD in Iraq to get President George W. Bush to help them invade Iraq. The British treated rumors about WMD as if they were proven facts.
Now they are using fake intelligence to undermine President Donald Trump. Patrick Cockburn in the "London Independent" says the charges about Trump's alleged association with the Russians are based on information that is at least as unreliable as the claims about Iraq's WMD.
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