unz | The latest Democratic Party shill to demonize Russia is, I am ashamed
to say, my state of Virginia’s Senator Mark Warner, who, on Thursday said
“Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a deliberate campaign
carefully constructed to undermine our election.” Last Thursday, Warner
was the top Democrat on a Senate Intelligence Committee panel
investigating Moscow’s alleged interference in last year’s presidential
election. The panel inevitably included carefully selected expert
witnesses who would agree with the proposition that Russia is and was
guilty as charged. There was no one who provided an alternative view
even though a little Googling would have surfaced some genuine experts
who dispute the prevailing narrative.
Warner joined many of his esteemed colleagues
in Congress who have completely accepted the allegations that Russia
meddled in the election in spite of the failure of the Obama
Administration to provide any indisputable evidence to that effect.
Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland has called Moscow’s claimed interference
an “attack” and labeled it a “political Pearl Harbor.” A number of other
congressmen, to include Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey and Eric
Swalwell of California have called it an act of war. And then there are
echo chambers Senators John McCain and Mark Rubio on the Republican side
of the aisle while former Vice President Dick Cheney was speaking at a
business conference in New Delhi saying the same thing. Yes, that Dick
Cheney. Why anyone in India would pay to hear him speak on any subject
escapes me.
Democrat
Adam Schiff of California is leading the charge for his party as he is
the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. He outlined his case
against Russia two weeks ago, providing a heap of minimally factual
“information”, relying heavily instead on supposition and featuring
mostly innuendo. And again, it was largely evidence-free. One assertion
is almost comical: “In July 2016, Carter Page, one of Trump’s former
national security advisers, traveled to Moscow
after being approved to do so by the Trump campaign. While there, Page
gave a speech in which he was critical of the U.S. and its efforts to
fight corruption and promote democracy.”
