guessing you prefer P.utins brand of gov where it is all out in the open.....the gov has everything you have nothing?
our gov just happens to have been set up on the Roman empire....at the time it was the best around...…..but besides that point ….gov is only as good as the people involved in it!
our founding forefathers warned us on corruption...and "moneyed people"....
I have a question because other than the daily snipets on the news I didn't read much about the Russian interference and quite honestly didn't care. We interfere in other countries elections and have been doing it for a long time. My question is this:
Did Russia go to the voting polls and pull the levers for American voters in 2016? Because if it was just bombarding social media saying Hillary is bad (because she is) or Trump is the best candidate (which he was and is again) I'm thinking what difference does it make? I am voting for whom I want to vote regardless of the BS I hear or read.
The airwaves on every channel could be taken over with non - stop programming from now until November saying Trump is bad and Biden is great, I'm still voting for Trump. Am I missing something? (my brain) Sub, I answered for you so you can attend to all those biased stories you need to post.
By
Scott Shane
Bags of cash delivered to a Rome hotel for favored Italian candidates. Scandalous stories leaked to foreign newspapers to swing an election in Nicaragua. Millions of pamphlets, posters and stickers printed to defeat an incumbent in Serbia.
The long arm of Vladimir Putin? No, just a small sample of the United States’ history of intervention in foreign elections.
On Tuesday,
American intelligence chiefs warned the Senate Intelligence Committee that Russia appears to be preparing to repeat in the 2018 midterm elections the same full-on chicanery it unleashed in 2016: hacking, leaking, social media manipulation and possibly more. Then on Friday, Robert Mueller, the special counsel, announced the indictments of 13 Russians and three companies, run by a businessman with close Kremlin ties, laying out in astonishing detail a three-year scheme to use social media to attack Hillary Clinton, boost Donald Trump and sow discord.
Most Americans are understandably shocked by what they view as an unprecedented attack on our political system. But intelligence veterans, and scholars who have studied covert operations, have a different, and quite revealing, view.
“If you ask an intelligence officer, did the Russians break the rules or do something bizarre, the answer is no, not at all,” said Steven L. Hall, who retired in 2015 after 30 years at the C.I.A., where he was the chief of Russian operations.
The United States “absolutely” has carried out such election influence operations historically, he said, “and I hope we keep doing it.”
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