"russiagate" has the feel of the effective deflection that Karl Rove engineered for GWB over his AWOL incident -- release a convincing fake that substantiated t

"russiagate" has the feel of the effective deflection that Karl Rove engineered for GWB over his AWOL incident -- release a convincing fake that substantiated the narrative and then once it's accepted to reveal the forgery and shift all focus to that, rather than Bush's indiscretions. I admire the deftness of that trickery but have no love for the substance of it.