The Democrats “Russia Hacking” Campaign is Political Suicide


Counter Punch has the article The Democrats “Russia Hacking” Campaign is Political Suicide. Talking abou a New York Times article, Mike Whitney had the following to say:

If there was a Pulitzer Prize for fearmongering innuendo or spurious accusations, the Times would win it hands-down. As it happens, readers have to delve much deeper into the article to find this shocking disclaimer:

“But the campaign officials acknowledge that they have no evidence. The Trump campaign has dismissed the accusations about Russia as a deliberate distraction…..”

“No evidence”???

They got nothing. NOTHING!

I’ll be back shortly after I find the link to the NYT article.

The New York Times article Spy Agency Consensus Grows That Russia Hacked D.N.C. By DAVID E. SANGER and ERIC SCHMITT JULY 26, 2016. (Notice that this is not a new article.)

I don’t find the quote exactly in the context as Mike Whitney implied. This is what I found:

Campaign officials have also suggested that Mr. Putin could be trying to tilt the election to Donald J. Trump. But they acknowledge that they have no evidence.

Asked on Tuesday at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia whether “there’s more to the Trump/Russian relationship that hasn’t come out,” John Podesta, the Clinton campaign chairman, said, “Well, he certainly has a bromance with Mr. Putin, so I don’t know.”

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