Re: Russian influence, the FBI, trump, McGonigal, Deripaska and 2016 elections
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 2:03 pm
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Part 2 of Timothy Snyder’s piece on the spy scandal of the 2016 election, and how the major daily newspapers let the FBI off the hook for investigating the Russians while attention turned to Clinton’s ‘e-mail (non)scandal’.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-traum ... andal-part
“We cannot undo or redo 2016, but we can recognize and address our own failures. The tendency not to take other countries seriously, to imagine that all that matters is what happens here, to confuse what is said with what is happening: these are all American mistakes, which we keep making. We pay for them in the currency of conscience during this spy scandal, while Ukrainians pay for them in the currency of blood as they resist Russian invasion. It would be a shame to miss the chance to reevaluate 2016 afforded to us by this spy scandal. If we do not take this opportunity to reflect, we will deepen the trauma of that year, and ensure that is continues, through the institutions that we would like to trust, and down the generations whom we would like to spare the repetition of such terrible events.”
Part 2 of Timothy Snyder’s piece on the spy scandal of the 2016 election, and how the major daily newspapers let the FBI off the hook for investigating the Russians while attention turned to Clinton’s ‘e-mail (non)scandal’.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-traum ... andal-part
“We cannot undo or redo 2016, but we can recognize and address our own failures. The tendency not to take other countries seriously, to imagine that all that matters is what happens here, to confuse what is said with what is happening: these are all American mistakes, which we keep making. We pay for them in the currency of conscience during this spy scandal, while Ukrainians pay for them in the currency of blood as they resist Russian invasion. It would be a shame to miss the chance to reevaluate 2016 afforded to us by this spy scandal. If we do not take this opportunity to reflect, we will deepen the trauma of that year, and ensure that is continues, through the institutions that we would like to trust, and down the generations whom we would like to spare the repetition of such terrible events.”