The attempted Clinton-CIA coup against Donald Trump

[Magda Hassan]

Sorry, I think that's just B.S.

You may well think that but you have no evidence. Neither does the NYT. Neither does any one. No arrests. No names. No proof. No calling the ambassador in. No kicking out the First Secretary. Or Second or Third Secretary even. Nothing.

It's basic spycraft to use third party cutouts to pass along information to a group like Wikileaks. They can easily represent themselves as "disgruntled insiders," when in fact they are acting on behalf of Russian intelligence.

Sure. And yes Russia may benefit, as many do, from not having Clinton as President. However, the source of the leak is known and it is not Russia or a Russian. It is a Yanky Doodle.

Maybe you didn't notice the Exxon CEO who is going to be Secretary of State, even though he received a personal award from Putin? This isn't cold war paranoia.

Yes, Arctic exploration and exploitation will be disastrous for the planet. Must be stopped.

Putin doesn't like Hillary and didn't want her to win.

Not the only one apparently. Plenty in the US didn't like her either. And Putin has good reason not to like her and her coterie of regime changing chaos causing neo con sociopaths. Do not take that as an endorsement of Trump.

Anyone who doesn't believe that the Russians hacked both parties is naive. They are holding the Republican emails as future blackmail material to influence Trump, which may be one reason the GOP and its right-wing media allies are curiously afraid all of a sudden to criticize Russia anymore.

And why wouldn't others besides Russia also have these republican emails to use for future blackmail of Trump? The Republicans have them for a start. Many of them despise Trump more than Hilary. I'm sure they would love to have him do their bidding or otherwise neutralise him.

As a side note, we have Trump and his people trying to argue that Russian Hacking=WMDs, so there's no story folks, don't believe what the CIA says. Never mind that the cooked intelligence on WMDs actually came from Dick Cheney's personal intelligence unit (Office of Special Plans) staffed by neo-cons, while many people at CIA actually argued that Cheney's intelligence was wrong.

I wouldn't believe what the CIA says either. But not because there is no story there. Lots of stories need investigation, and never were by the Dems when they had the chance, but the Russian Hack is not one of them.