The Assault on Intelligence
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The Assault on Intelligence
February 27, 2018 at 7:17 am EST
By Taegan Goddard
Coming in May: The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies by Gen. Michael Hayden.
From the introduction: There is no effort here to build a case for or against collusion. But whatever emerges from Robert Muellers investigation, it should not obscure the bigger story, which is still not adequately understood, and which is in a way this books climactic case study, namely that Russia has been actively seeking to damage the fabric of American democracy and that the Trump Administrations glandular aversion to even looking at this squarely, much less mounting a concerted response to it, is an appalling national security lapse.
Indeed, there is clear evidence of what I would call convergence, the convergence of a mutually reinforcing swirl of Presidential tweets and statements, Russian influenced social media, alt right websites and talk radio, Russian white press like RT and even mainstream U.S. media like Fox Newsall of whom do things for their own purposes, but all of which fits nicely with Russian purposes to sharpen and sustain divisions here.