{"id":23443,"date":"2016-12-12T20:21:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T01:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23443"},"modified":"2016-12-12T20:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T01:31:45","slug":"the-democrats-russia-hacking-campaign-is-political-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/12\/12\/the-democrats-russia-hacking-campaign-is-political-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats \u201cRussia Hacking\u201d Campaign is Political Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Counter Punch<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/12\/12\/the-democrats-russia-hacking-campaign-is-political-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Democrats \u201cRussia Hacking\u201d Campaign is Political Suicide<\/a>.  Talking abou a New York Times article, Mike Whitney had the following to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf 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:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the campaign officials acknowledge that they have no evidence. The Trump campaign has dismissed the accusations about Russia as a deliberate distraction\u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo evidence\u201d???<\/p>\n<p>They got nothing. NOTHING!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be back shortly after I find the link to the NYT article.<\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/27\/us\/politics\/spy-agency-consensus-grows-that-russia-hacked-dnc.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spy Agency Consensus Grows That Russia Hacked D.N.C.<\/a> By DAVID E. SANGER and ERIC SCHMITT JULY 26, 2016. (Notice that this is not a new article.)<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t find the quote exactly in the context as Mike Whitney implied.  This is what I found:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCampaign 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.<\/p>\n<p>Asked on Tuesday at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia whether \u201cthere\u2019s more to the Trump\/Russian relationship that hasn\u2019t come out,\u201d John Podesta, the Clinton campaign chairman, said, \u201cWell, he certainly has a bromance with Mr. Putin, so I don\u2019t know.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counter Punch has the article The Democrats \u201cRussia Hacking\u201d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23448,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23443\/revisions\/23448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}