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What government wouldn't favor a candidate who promises better relations with them?
Another irony: The U.S. has been hacking elections (and toppling governments) around the world for more than a century. How many hundreds of millions of people, from Indonesia to Chile and dozens of countries in between, wish that all the United States did to their elections was what Russia is accused of doing here in 2016?
Of course, that is no justification for any foreign intervention here, but it is part of the current story if we want to understand it. Washington's intervention in Ukraine, for example, helped push that country into a civil war that became the main cause of the current state of Cold War between the U.S. and Russia.
About half of the report was littered with a long rant against Russian-sponsored media, including the television station Russia Today. Here is another deep irony: The media that swung the election for Trump was not Russian but American, despite the fact that most of these journalists and editors found the candidate repellent.
Trump's huge advantage in free publicity not only won him the primary, but continued into the general election. It was the U.S. media that made FBI Director James Comey's letter so important -- because the broadcast media used it to displace Trump's scandals, including the allegations of sexual assaults -- in the crucial last 11 days when millions of voters made up their minds.
The media coverage makes for an entertaining circus, especially the acrobatics of various political leaders as they flip-flop on issues of Cold War and peace and who should be stupid enough to believe intelligence agencies, on faith, after they have lied about so many things from Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction back to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution and the Vietnam War.
The official story is that they can't show us how they know what the Russian government did because that would compromise their intelligence sources and/or methods. Sorry, folks; you are threatening to worsen relations even further with a nuclear weapons superpower -- you are going to have to show us some evidence.
As President George W. Bush famously said, "Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you... Fool me, you can't get fooled again!"
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