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2017-09-20 Home Front: Politix
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Actor Morgan Freeman recruited to re-inflate flaccid Russiagate
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 [HOT Air] Sort of. He’s the A-lister enlisted as spokesman in the first ad for the new "Committee to Investigate Russia," a group of Democratic partisans like Rob Reiner and center-right hawks like David Frum who are joining forces to ... investigate Russia? Not really. Judging from the website, it looks more like they’re curating news about people who are investigating Russia.
That would be Freeman on the.... left.
A clearinghouse for Russiagate information that tries to put new developments in context would be a useful thing, actually, as the plot has become increasingly byzantine. There’s Mike Flynn and his undeclared foreign lobbying; there’s Paul Manafort and his work for Putin’s crony in Ukraine; there’s the half-assed Don Jr meeting with the Russian lawyers; there’s the Agalarov family, which made a cameo in the Don Jr meeting and which has known POTUS for years; there’s Felix Sater and his weird tangle of dubious relationships; there’s the mystery of how Russian ad purchasers knew which American voters to target on Facebook; and on and on.
"Explanatory journalism" is usually a euphemism for liberals dressing up their policy preferences as dispassionate analyses of current events and aiming them at a younger audience but Russiagate really could use some user-friendly explanatory journalism. Keep it (mostly) simple, make it graphics-intensive, ensure that it stays on top of the latest news. Add a natsec lawyer or two a la Lawfare to explain legal esoterica when it arises, which will be often. Last night’s Manafort bombshell is an example. To obtain a FISA warrant to wiretap a U.S. citizen, the feds would have needed to produce evidence that he’s an agent of a foreign power. What might that evidence look like in his case?
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Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-20 01:06||
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Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-09-20 13:40||
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