Incisive piece on what I
believe is one of the biggest U.S. scandals of this era--Watergate
on steroids Viagra:
Excerpt:
The specter of an
intelligence bureaucracy working in tandem with the press to preserve the
prerogatives of a ruling clique is the kind of thing that someone who knows
Russia from the inside and actually fears the specter of authoritarian
government would naturally find worrying. And not surprisingly, concerns over
the role of the intelligence community and its increasingly intrusive methods
motivate other Russiagate critics on the left, like
Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept, historian Jackson Lears writing at
the London Review of Books, and Stephen Cohen at The Nation.
“One of the most bizarre
aspects of Russiagate,” writes Lears,
“is the magical transformation of intelligence agency heads into paragons of
truth-telling—a trick performed not by reactionary apologists for domestic
spying, as one would expect, but by people who consider themselves liberals.”
Cohen, a distinguished if
often overly sympathetic historian of the Soviet Union, was even more alarmed.
“Was Russiagate produced by the primary leaders of the US intelligence
community?” asks Cohen,
referring to former CIA director John Brennan as well as ex-FBI chief James
Comey. “If so, it is the most perilous political scandal in modern American
history and the most detrimental to American democracy.”
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