Here is the Intel Report on the Russian Hack . .

[FairWinds]

Read it yourself (from Mum Jones)

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/read-us-intelligence-report-russian-hacking-2016-campaign

To me, it is an embarrassment, containing pretty much zero evidence. As Prof. Juan Cole wrote earlier today,

"The hysteria about Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee servers and the phishing scam run on Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta, is short on evidence and high in self-righteousness. Much of the report issued Friday was old boilerplate about the Russia Today cable channel, which proves nothing."

In fact, the Intel report is so bad that it reminds me of the phony-assed Intel reports on Saddam's WMD's - laughable on their face.

Check out p. 17 of the report. It accuses RT of propagandistic reporting on the Occupy movement. Well, I watched a lot of that
RT coverage and found it to be MUCH MORE FAIR than the MSM in general, or FOX in particular.

I'm no fan of the Russian government or Putin, but can't we at least have a discussion based on evidence and facts?

[Igel]

1. No.

We're outraged and given to hysteria.

Watch out, or you'll be hacked like the Vermont power grid.

Oh. Wait.

Even the "celebrating Russian leaders" turned out to be Zhirinovsky. Not a friend-of-Putin. More of a useful idiot that I've intensely disliked since '94. There's a lot of overlap in perspectives with One Russia ("United Russia" in the official agitprop translation of the Putin Party), but little overlap in methods or ultimate goals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Zhirinovsky


RT is "fair" only when it's dissing the US and saying bad things about it. In other words, when our biases overlap with its biases. Otherwise, to support it is, in the words of another poster I read today, siding with a foreign enemy against a domestic group that hate even more.