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The Nunes memo and Putin's long game: Putin might get tired of winning
From Matthew Nussbaum at Politico:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/02/nunes-memo-putin-russia-trump-388246
Vladimir Putin might get tired of winning.
Ever since the U.S. intelligence community discovered the Russian operation to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and aid President Donald Trump’s victory, some Republicans have been laboring to undermine investigations into the attack and discredit the intelligence agencies that discovered it.
Those efforts reached a new crescendo on Friday, when House Republicans released a partisan memo alleging anti-Trump bias at the FBI with approval from Trump, who declared on Twitter that both the FBI and Department of Justice are corrupt.
But that turmoil, some were quick to point out, is exactly what Putin wanted all along.
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Ever since the U.S. intelligence community discovered the Russian operation to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and aid President Donald Trump’s victory, some Republicans have been laboring to undermine investigations into the attack and discredit the intelligence agencies that discovered it.
Those efforts reached a new crescendo on Friday, when House Republicans released a partisan memo alleging anti-Trump bias at the FBI with approval from Trump, who declared on Twitter that both the FBI and Department of Justice are corrupt.
But that turmoil, some were quick to point out, is exactly what Putin wanted all along.
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