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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Cooling the anti-Russia hysteria


Cooling the anti-Russia hysteria

There’s more to be gained from an anti-terror alliance
- - Wednesday, March 22, 2017

The start of House Intelligence Committee hearings on Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election revealed starkly different partisan agendas. Republicans want to know who criminally leaked classified information for political purposes, culminating in the political assassination of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. It is clear as a matter of established fact that such leaks took place.
Democrats, on the other hand, doubled down on “Russiagate,” their fevered accusations that the Trump team is in the pocket of the Kremlin. For the latter, there is still no evidence.
But that isn’t keeping the mainstream media and their left-wing and neoconservative allies from shrieking that Russia tops the list of America’s enemies. Critics of this hysteria have dubbed it a “new McCarthyism,” but that really is unfair — to Tail Gunner Joe. Whatever his excesses, in his day there really were Stalinist agents in America and covert communists at the State Department.
The hype around this red scare without reds has been matched only by the absence of evidence to back it up. As the #TheRussiansDidIt meme becomes an object of mockery, even some on the left are beginning to caution that they might have overdone it and stand to lose politically.http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/22/russian-influence-in-elections-overblown/

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