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Aaron Maté
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According to this Politico story, somehow Glenn Greenwald is viewed as a threat to The Intercept's ability to "credibly cover the Russia story"... because he was one of the few to get it exactly right. Do we want journalists, or cult members?
politico.com/magazine/story…
Other things that might have hurt TI's ability to "credibly cover the Russia story":
And btw, not only did Glenn get this right, he got this right *right from the beginning*, well before other Russiagate critics entered the fray, including me. That makes the work he did all the more impressive, and the complaints about it somehow hurting TI all the more puzzling:
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Federal judge has issued a significant rebuke of a core Mueller claim. Mueller claims that the IRA -- a Russian troll farm -- was the 2nd of "two principal interference operations" by Russian gov't. But as judge notes, Mueller's implied link between IRA & Russian gov't was false:
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That's right folks, a gratuitous display of US militarism and jingoism is "Putin's America." Putin, whose country is surrounded by NATO bases & US forces, just loves celebrating America's military might, and has a puppet in the White House to do it for him.
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