MSNBC’s Chris Hayes recently asked a question of
his Twitter following that was so heavily loaded it wouldn’t be
permitted on most interstate highways: “Aside from genuine cranks, is
there anyone left denying it was the Russians that committed criminal
sabotage in the American election?”
Hayes asked this fake
question because he works for MSNBC and it is therefore his job, and he
asked it in response to a report first made viral by deranged espionage LARPer Eric Garland that
a Dutch intelligence agency had been observing Russian hackers
attacking US political parties in advance of the 2016 election. Like all
“bombshell” Russiagate reports, this one roared through social media
like wildfire carried on the wings of liberal hysteria about the current
administration, only to be exposed as being riddled with gaping plot
holes as documented here by
independent journalist Suzie Dawson. The report revolves around an
allegedly Russian cyber threat now known in the west as “Cozy Bear,”
which as Real News‘ Max Blumenthal notes is
not a network of hackers but “a Russian-sounding name the for-profit
firm Crowdstrike assigned to an APT to market its findings to gullible
reporters desperate for Russiagate scoops.”
This “bombshell” overlapped with another as it was reported by the New York Times that at one point many months ago Trump had wanted to fire Robert Mueller, but then didn’t.
