{"id":31341,"date":"2018-02-21T09:03:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31341"},"modified":"2018-02-21T09:03:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T14:03:33","slug":"russia-meddling-act-of-war-michael-moore-trapped-cia-admissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31341","title":{"rendered":"Russia Meddling “Act of War”, Michael Moore Trapped, CIA Admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Idiotic comments regarding “Russia’s act of war” against the US for meddling in the Us election has reached consensus.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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The Intercept reports A Consensus Emerges: Russia Committed an \u201cAct of War\u201d on Par With Pearl Harbor and 9\/11. Should the U.S. Response Be Similar?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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IN THE WAKE of last week\u2019s indictments<\/a> alleging that 13 Russian nationals and entities created fake social media accounts and sponsored political events to sow political discord in the U.S., something of a consensus has arisen in the political and media class (with some notable exceptions<\/a>) that these actions not only constitute an \u201cact of war\u201d against the U.S., but one so grave that it is tantamount to Pearl Harbor and 9\/11. Indeed, that Russia\u2019s alleged \u201cmeddling\u201d is comparable to the two most devastating attacks in U.S. history has, overnight, become a virtual clich\u00e9.<\/p>\n

The claim that Russian meddling in the election is \u201can act of war\u201d comparable to these events isn\u2019t brand new. Senators from both parties, such as Republican John McCain<\/a> and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen<\/a>, have long described Russian meddling in 2016 as an \u201cact of war.\u201d Hillary Clinton, while promoting her book last October, described<\/a> Russia\u2019s alleged hacking of the DNC and John Podesta\u2019s email inbox as a \u201ccyber 9\/11.\u201d And last February, the always war-hungry Tom Friedman of the New York Times said on<\/a> \u201cMorning Joe\u201d that Russian hacking \u201cwas a 9\/11-scale event. They attacked the core of our democracy. That was a Pearl Harbor-scale event.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the last few days have ushered in an explosion of this rhetoric from politicians and journalists alike. On Friday night\u2019s Chris Hayes show on MSNBC, two separate guests \u2014 Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler and longtime Clinton aide Philippe Reines \u2014 posited<\/a> Pearl Harbor as the \u201cequivalent\u201d of Russian meddling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Should We Bomb Russia?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Russia Meddling “Act of War”, Michael Moore Trapped, CIA Admissions Idiotic comments regarding “Russia’s act of war” against the US for meddling in the Us election has reached consensus. The Intercept reports A Consensus Emerges: Russia Committed an \u201cAct of War\u201d on Par With Pearl Harbor and 9\/11. Should the U.S. Response Be Similar? IN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18757,4102,135,18724,12479,7550,13390,18781,694,5567,827],"class_list":["post-31341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-act-of-war","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-cia","tag-election-meddling","tag-michael-moore","tag-mike-shedlock","tag-mishtalk","tag-pearl-harbor","tag-russia","tag-the-intercept","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31342,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31341\/revisions\/31342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}