{"id":25018,"date":"2018-01-11T20:32:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T01:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25018"},"modified":"2018-01-11T20:32:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T01:32:19","slug":"the-fbi-hand-behind-russia-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/01\/11\/the-fbi-hand-behind-russia-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Consortium News<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/01\/11\/the-fbi-hand-behind-russia-gate\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDespite the extraordinary gravity of the charge, even New York Times correspondent Scott Shane noted that proof was lacking. He wrote at the time: \u201cWhat is missing from the [the Jan. 6] public report is what many Americans most eagerly anticipated: hard evidence to back up the agencies\u2019 claims that the Russian government engineered the election attack. \u2026 Instead, the message from the agencies essentially amounts to \u2018trust us.\u2019\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This excerpt is the least of what is in this article, but it does show why I stopped believing in Russia-gate. This is about the initial &#8216;intelligence&#8221; report that &#8220;proved&#8221; it was Russia doing the meddling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consortium News has the article The FBI Hand Behind Russia-gate. Despite the extraordinary gravity of the charge, even New York Times correspondent Scott Shane noted that proof was lacking. He wrote at the time: \u201cWhat is missing from the [the Jan. 6] public report is what many Americans most eagerly anticipated: hard evidence to back [&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-25018","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\/25018","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=25018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25019,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25018\/revisions\/25019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}