> to pretend that Russia I didn't pretend anything, I compared two things. The US intelligence agencies don't themselves have a clean record: COINTELPRO, PRIS

> to pretend that Russia I didn't pretend anything, I compared two things. The US intelligence agencies don't themselves have a clean record: COINTELPRO, PRISM, CIA spying on the Senate intelligence committee (then lying about it). Each of those counts as a conspiracy, and it's of note that people like Edward Snowden have been hunted and chased out of the country (and people like Julian Assange similarly persecuted).