Vladimir Putin Has Already Won Our Election
It’s time to face the facts: Kremlin spies and hackers are undermining American politics
What the Russians are now engaged in, though, is something different and more serious. The Kremlin is weaponizing stolen information for political effect. This is something like what American spies term covert action, which includes the use of propaganda for political advantage over foreign adversaries.
However, what the Kremlin is doing here is far more aggressive since it’s aimed at directly influencing American politics in an election year. This falls under the rubric of what Russian spies call Active Measures, and they’ve been doing this a long time. This was a Moscow staple during the Cold War, when the KGB used Western fronts to disseminate disinformation—a mix of truth and fiction aimed at distorting political debate.
This was sometimes effective at confusing Western publics, particularly when Active Measures employed realistic-looking fake NATO or American documents, and some of the KGB’s more enduring disinformation schemes—for instance, the lie that the Pentagon created AIDS—still reverberate today, over three decades after the Kremlin launched them.
http://observer.com/2016/08/vladimir-putin-has-already-won-our-election/
‘It’s time to face the facts: Kremlin spies and hackers are undermining American politics’
Bill Clinton: “I wholeheartedly agree. That blasted Putin — bashing homosexuals and defenseless muslims and leaking DNC secrets. He’s really sticking it to us in the Ruling Class. We need to do something about that man. Swat him like a mosquito. Get him into a park like Jerry Parks or put him on Ruby Ridge. Something.”
Putin? I thought it was Emmanuel Goldstein, that dirty rat.
When the author started praising McQueeg and ripping Trump, he lost me.
“It’s time to face the facts: Kremlin spies and hackers are undermining American politics”
The above doesn’t say much for American politics or the system. Though agree with you - that’s ‘democracy’; you’ll leave yourself wide open to attack.
EVERY American election has become a circus.
In the end, personally, I will neither trust Hillary nor Trump. What’s the alternative though?