Posted on 08/16/2018 11:20:19 AM PDT by Magnatron
When Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia’s internal security service, told me during an early August 2016 phone call that Russia wasn’t interfering in our presidential election, I knew he was lying. Over the previous several years I had grown weary of Mr. Bortnikov’s denials of Russia’s perfidy — about its mistreatment of American diplomats and citizens in Moscow, its repeated failure to adhere to cease-fire agreements in Syria and its paramilitary intervention in eastern Ukraine, to name just a few issues.
When I warned Mr. Bortnikov that Russian interference in our election was intolerable and would roil United States-Russia relations for many years, he denied Russian involvement in any election, in America or elsewhere, with a feigned sincerity that I had heard many times before. President Vladimir Putin of Russia reiterated those denials numerous times over the past two years, often to Donald Trump’s seeming approval.
Russian denials are, in a word, hogwash.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Well done on the author lol
I was hoping that the author’s name really *was* “Butthole”
Brennan is in full panic right now.
Brennen is a turd.
Fake news. A muslim like JB would not say hog wash.
Brennan is in full panic right now.
Popcorn maker broken.
Trump is trolling and baiting this self-righteous, arrogant, traitorous and treasonous CIA, deep-state bastard - and I love it.
By the time Brennan is finished, not a single American will ever trust the CIA again - as it should be.
If you throw a rock over a fence at a pack of dogs, then the dog you hit is the one who yelps.
5.56mm
So says the hogwasher in chief!
John Brennan could get a job as a hemorrhoid model.
“Do you want to look like this for the rest of your life?
Then try Barack’s Butt Butter!
It’ll put the smile back on a Democrat’s face!”
The new Juanie wet fart ...
This guy is such an ass.
[Brennan is in full panic right now.]
I imagine several of the coup-plotters are now.
IF this is true, then VOTER ID is a must now for National Security. And ballots only printed in ENGLISH.
I’d love to supply the rope to hang this traitor with.
“would roil United States-Russia relations”
In other words, NOTHING would happen and the Obama Admin would continue to do NOTHING about it.
No comment from Gina Haspel? I was hoping she would expose all those involved.
“Russian denials are, in a word, hogwash.”
Except that cannot be extended to Trump denials of collusion, because that is an entirely separate issue from alleged Russian interference. The NY Slimes, knowing this, put a misleading headline over this non-story. It’s innuendo of the worst kind.
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