Here they go again: Senate reheats ‘Russian meddling’ claims, using assertions as evidence

[Sighlass]

  The Senate Intelligence Committee’s final report on ‘Russian interference’ in the 2016 US presidential election is short on evidence and long on reheated assertions and innuendo from ‘experts’ exposed as actual election meddlers.

There is little new in the 85-page, partially redacted document released on Tuesday, that has not been made public by the committee previously – including the accusations that “Russia” focused on stoking anger and resentment among African-Americans, for example.

There is a reason for that. By the committee’s own admission, “much of this Volume's analysis is derived from” the work of two Technical Advisory Groups (TAG), which produced two public reports back in December 2018, to the same kind of fawning press coverage the report is receiving now.

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The best part, however, has to be the reliance on New Knowledge, presented as “a cybersecurity company dedicated to protecting the public sphere from disinformation attacks.” In reality, New Knowledge was exposed by the New York Times as the outfit that actually ran bots and disinformation operations during the 2017 Alabama special election for the US Senate, targeting Republican candidate Roy Moore on behalf of Democrats – while blaming Russia!

https://www.rt.com/usa/470481-senate-intelligence-report-russian-meddling/?fbclid=IwAR1mKtfBFwKWk3NN3OPukL_XQcfIyE83gaO69VJOk_ZHatwqetn6ND7ztr4

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I looked at a lot of ads the so-called Russians put out on FB during the election and got a totally different opinion than this report... it looked like they (and we can't be sure if they were actually Russians due to democrats pretending to be Russian bots) were not trying to help Trump as much at Hillary. Most of the ads I saw were designed to tick off ultra liberal sectors of the populace (blacks and gays especially) with just a few targeting gun owners.