What an honest journalist might ask is if the Russians had really been trying to influence the US presidential election and help Donald Trump win, then why didn’t they release all of the emails that Hillary Clinton deleted from her private server?
It wasn’t the Russians—they wanted Hillary not Trump
Watching the sequel to the 1966 comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming that played on Capitol Hill yesterday, one was reminded of the conclusion attributed to John Adam’s that “one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.”
In response to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s statement that he was more resolutely convinced than ever that “only Russia’s senior-most officials could have authorized the recent election-focused data thefts and disclosures, based on the scope and sensitivity of the targets” Senator Lindsey Graham said it was time to start “throwing rocks” at Russia, while John McCain asked Clapper if the Russian hacking constituted “an act of war.”
