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Wasn't the CIA one of the groups pushing the Russia conspiracy angle? I remember John Brennan, former head of the CIA, was on MSNBC for years pushing this theor
by dionian 5y ago
Wasn't the CIA one of the groups pushing the Russia conspiracy angle? I remember John Brennan, former head of the CIA, was on MSNBC for years pushing this theory.
- yonaguska 5y agoShhh- none of that happened. Move on please. Biden is president now and all that stuff is irrelevant now.
- dang 5y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to Hacker News? We're trying for something different here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- yonaguska 5y agoSorry, not trying to flamebait, just making light of the fact that what was the biggest news story for nearly 3 years running, and is now a common cultural reference- has been memory-holed now that facts about the case are coming out. I could have phrased it better.
- mhh__ 5y agoEmphasis on one of though, it wasn't like they just dropped a bomb and left. There were other groups involved. This https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associat... And https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_... are fairly good articles last time I checked. I kind of subscribe to the "OSINT groups are led on by state intelligence agencies" theory, but that doesn't mean they're wrong.